Leonie speaks to the organizations and individuals behind the lawsuit accusing the city and state of operating a racist and exclusionary school system in NYC, that the Appellate Court just ruled could go forward: Omari Soulfinger, Co-Executive Director of IntegrateNYC; Mark Rosenbaum director of Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law; and Sarah Camiscoli, attorney at the Peer Defense Project.
School Diversity Advisory Group, Making the Grade II: New Programs for Better Schools, August 2019, https://docs.steinhardt.nyu.edu/pdfs/metrocenter/atn293/sdag/Making-the-Grade-II.pdf
Courthouse News, Sweeping Suit Over NYC Schools Bias Calls to Disband ‘Gifted & Talented’ Programs, March 9, 2021,
https://www.courthousenews.com/sweeping-suit-over-nyc-schools-bias-calls-to-disband-gifted-talented-programs/
NY Times, Court Allows Case Challenging Segregation in N.Y.C. Schools to Advance, May 2, 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/nyregion/nyc-schools-segregation.html
Public Counsel, Integrate NYC vs. New York; Case Developments https://publiccounsel.org/our-cases/integratenyc-v-new-york/case-developments/