Why Are New York’s Schools Segregated? It’s Not as Simple as Housing

The Bloomingdale School, where most children enter with failing grades on state tests, in New York, May 1, 2018. A new plan would give priority for 25 percent of the seats at all the district’s middle schools to students who score below grade level, which would likely increase the number of poor and minority students at schools that are now out of reach for many disadvantaged families. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)