As students move through elementary, middle and high schools, they travel along two pathways of high-quality schools and low-performing ones.
Of the 116,000 students who attend the city's 141 top-performing schools, the vast majority are white or Asian, and the poverty rate is only about half the city average.
But in the city's 850 low-performing schools, which enroll 478,000 students, 90 percent are black or Hispanic.
http://www.amny.com/opinion/mayor-bi...ems-1.10852128
Of the 116,000 students who attend the city's 141 top-performing schools, the vast majority are white or Asian, and the poverty rate is only about half the city average.
But in the city's 850 low-performing schools, which enroll 478,000 students, 90 percent are black or Hispanic.
http://www.amny.com/opinion/mayor-bi...ems-1.10852128
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