{"id":364531,"date":"2018-06-08T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T07:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-mayor-de-blasio-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:08:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T07:08:40","slug":"is-mayor-de-blasio-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-mayor-de-blasio-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mayor de Blasio – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThough New York City has one of the most segregated schools systems in the country,\u201d writes Elizabeth Harris of The New York Times, until now, Mayor Bill de Blasio \u201cwas all but silent on the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was \u201creluctant even to use the word \u2018segregation.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Now the notion that the liberal mayor belongs in the same basket as Southern governors in the \u201950s and \u201960s like Orval Faubus of Arkansas and Ross Barnett of Mississippi seems a bit of a stretch.<\/p>\n

For what Harris means by \u201csegregation\u201d is that in the city\u2019s eight most prestigious schools, like Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx School of Science, where admission is by written test, the makeup of the student body does not remotely resemble the racial diversity of the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack and Hispanic students make up nearly 70 percent of the city\u2019s public school students,\u201d writes Harris, \u201cbut they received just 10 percent of offers for seats at specialized schools this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 27 percent of the offers went to white students who make up 15 percent of the student system; 52 percent went to Asian students, who up make 16 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris later adjusted her numbers. Asians are 62 percent of students. At Stuyvesant, only 10 of 900 students being admitted this fall are black.
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At Stuyvesant, The Wall Street Journal writes, \u201c2.8 percent of students are Latino and 0.69 percent are black. But 72.9 percent are Asian-American.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris decries this as \u201cextreme school segregation.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Blasio now demands change: \u201cWe must be sure that the very best high schools are open to \u2026 every kind of New Yorker.\u201d The student bodies at the elite public schools…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThough New York City has one of the most segregated schools systems in the country,\u201d writes Elizabeth Harris of The New York Times, until now, Mayor Bill de Blasio \u201cwas all but silent on the issue.\u201d He was \u201creluctant even to use the word \u2018segregation.’\u201d Now the notion that the liberal mayor belongs in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}