New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference on Friday that he sees wealth redistribution as an important factor in ending structural racism in education.
“I would say very bluntly that our mission is to redistribute wealth,” he said. ‘A lot of people are angry with that sentence. That is, in fact, the phrase we should use. ‘
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He added that the city’s government should have “more equitable redistribution of resources” across the school system, which he said would include pre-K and 3-K for all and advanced placement courses at every high school.
The mayor said minority students have been most affected by the closure of coronavirus schools, adding that his office would focus on closing the “COVID performance gap,” which disproportionately hurts children without access to technical skills. resources during distance learning.
He then announced several admission changes in the city to combat segregation in selective schools, including expanding diversity planning in each district, eliminating geographic priority for the next two years, and expanding grant applications to more districts.
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“We can never accept a broken status quo,” said De Blasio. “We can never go back to a past that didn’t work. … The COVID era has taught us that so clearly, and we must do better and we will. And that means we are committed to tackling inequalities and inequality. in the world. life of New York City. ”