#EDgif Of The Day: Projected School-Level Changes Under "Controlled Choice" In NYC
Top/bottom East Village 🏫🏫 wld experience ➕➕ demographic shifts under #integration2.0 model https://t.co/9AKFNDABIw pic.twitter.com/CEWO5asipn
— alexanderrusso (@alexanderrusso) June 8, 2016
Here's a GIF showing how each school in NYC's District 1 would be affected by a controlled choice school integration initiative, based on a model presented by WNYC in its school integration series.
As you can see in the top row, schools that currently have almost 100 percent poor kids would see an influx of nonpoor kids. The bottom row shows how schools with relatively high percentages of nonpoor kids would gain poor classmates under a model plan.
The plan would phase in over time, and only new students (kindergartners, mostly) would be affected. But obviously these would be big changes for schools and families. Some families won't have choices. But we all know what happens when more affluent families don't get what they want.