Frederick K. Brewington’s education came at the end of a bitter civil-rights battle that engulfed New York State, more than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education.

In fact, New York City schools have even been called some of the most segregated school districts in the nation, particularly for Black and Latino students. 24/7 Live New York City New Jersey Long ...

New York City is starkly different today than it was 50 years ago. ... The prediction was correct; the Board of Education’s desegregation plan mostly fell apart over the next few years, ...

The 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v.Board of Education decision, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools, came and went in New York with little official notice ...

Eliza Shapiro is a reporter covering New York City education. She joined The Times in 2018 and grew up in New York, attending public and private schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

When “Freedom Day” arrived, the New York City Board of Education estimated that 464,361, or about 45% of public-school students, plus 3,537 or 8% of their teachers, did not go to school ...

New York state has some of the most segregated schools in the U.S., particularly among African-American and Latino students. And 65 years after the Supreme Court decision declaring school-based ...

In 2002, Bloomberg persuaded state lawmakers to give him mayoral control of the city’s 1 million-student school system. The New York City Board of Education was replaced with a less powerful ...

NYSCEF Doc No. 83: Affirmation of Charles D. Liebman, Esq. Pursuant to 12 NYCRR 130-1.1-a Submitted by Defendants the City of New York and the New York City Board of Education: ...

Board of Education as democratic idealists, but their motivations were more complex: if the efforts to upend Jim Crow reflected idealism, it was a cynical idealism.

But now there are concerns we could be facing a sort of "Segregation 2.0" In fact, New York City schools have even been ...