Diversity & Equity
After streamlining its annual survey to get clearer, more direct answers, NYC got feedback from more than 357,000 students. Here are key takeaways from the newest questions.
The change limits how officials can use data about discipline, admissions, and advanced classes to investigate possible racial discrimination.
Black and Latino students continue to secure a tiny fraction of seats in specialized high schools. Meanwhile, Mamdani’s administration reported improvements in placing 3-K students closer to home.
To wrap up P.S. Weekly’s season, student reporters look back on their hard-hitting journalism during a live-recorded event at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Through NYC’s Diversity in Admissions program, Bard Early College High School Manhattan has seen its demographics shift. P.S. Weekly explores how the school supports underrepresented students.
This episode of P.S. Weekly explores how the representation gap in NYC’s teaching workforce affects the classroom and looks at efforts to change the pipeline.
A new report shows about 20% of NYC schools meet equity goals for computer science, sparking calls for a new campaign that fits the age of AI.
A recent Supreme Court ruling produced a redistricting tsunami. Nonpartisan school board elections could feel the effects too.
P.S. Weekly producers Roberto Bailey and Zoe George dive into how Hunter College High School is one of the most competitive public high schools in New York City — and also one of the least diverse.
New York City eighth graders choose 12 or more options from a list of over 700 programs spread across roughly 400 high schools, with varying admissions rules
More than 2,500 MSCS students took an alternate state assessment last year. Advocates say that limits education opportunities for children with disabilities.
Cost concerns and competing priorities hindered a planned expansion that would have opened the school to more students without auditions.
Philadelphia district leaders said they wanted more equitable admissions policies for magnet schools like Masterman. An appeals court found that approach may be discriminatory.
The Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship was a 33-year-old initiative funded by the state to diversify the teacher workforce. After the program was challenged in 2024, lawmakers decided to erase all language related to race and ethnicity and change eligibility requirements.
The district’s decision to remove books from school libraries has now led to two lawsuits.
MSCS has four schools with designated deaf education programs. But parents say there aren’t enough ASL interpreters or trained teachers to help students succeed.
Turning the Office of Racial Equity into the Office of Strategic Educational Excellence follows attacks on DEI from the Trump administration and Indiana Gov. Mike Braun.
As mayoral candidates debate the future of NYC’s gifted and talented classes, a new Chalkbeat analysis shows that low enrollment in programs is costing the city millions.
It’s unclear how much the lawsuit has cost the district and how much fundraising appeals by the district and other groups have raised.
Two years ago, the Students for Fair Admissions decision ended affirmative action as the nation knew it. The Trump administration has repeatedly cited the ruling as it seeks to end a wide range of efforts to support students of color and diversify schools.