‘Sometimes teachers approach me in tears, describing things that happened in their observations that ought not to have happened.’
In addition to the staff shortages, District 75 has a teacher-absentee rate exceeding the rate of New York City teacher absenteeism citywide, according to federal data.
‘If you just look at the data, we’re good,’ says one expert. ‘But if you look at the actual breakout of the teacher turnover rate, it is significantly higher in communities of color.’
Across the city, state and nation, students deal with missing teachers every day. It’s a multifaceted problem whose impact on school performance is often overlooked in the debates about education policy.
But with desegregation an increasingly urgent goal, how long will it last?
The DOE recently said a pilot program won’t be expanded until it works out some of the problems that have led to a low capture rate of organic leftovers.
Researchers and citizens are starting to see high noise levels as a public health issue, especially for children.
The case cites over a hundred public schools without any sports teams, of which Black and Latino students are twice as likely to attend.
‘Chancellor Carranza must embrace a global multi-cultural curriculum that optimizes the study of groups that have been previously ignored. And our Sikh community must be included in such a curriculum. ‘
The report interrogates the meaning of integration in a gentrifying city and sets out 12 policy recommendations related to housing, schools and infrastructure.
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