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Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

The Public School Avengers

According to a 2014 report by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project, New York City’s schools continue to be among the most segregated in the nation. How does a diverse city still have such segregated schools?

In the summer of 2017, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Nupur Mathur and a group of students from the Red Hook Community Justice Center to peel back the layers on school segregation.

To investigate, students got out of the classroom and into the politics of education to speak with people invested in the future of NYC’s public high schools, from students and parents to educators and policy makers. This booklet is a guide to what they discovered.