by Dana Goldstein
Richard Carranza is eager to talk about segregation.
New York’s new schools chancellor wants to talk about how the nation’s largest school system is clustering the poorest children (mostly black and brown) in one set of classrooms, and the richest children (mostly white) in another set — and failing to live up to its progressive ideals.
He wants to talk about how school zones contribute to segregation and whether “gifted and talented” classes, where white and Asian students tend to cluster, ought to exist.
He says his ideas go further than finding ways to admit more black and Hispanic students to the city’s most elite high schools, a proposal he and Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled in June.
But, as the first full school year of Mr. Carranza’s tenure begins, the question is whether he will venture beyond what he calls “a values conversation” to effect large-scale citywide change
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