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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SWS = Super White School[/quote]

How can SWS be a “super white” school in a citywide school? Aren’t there a significant number of nonwhites that apply to the school in the lottery? Even if it is predominantly White, don’t they teach all students well with the Reggio method—especially those that start at preK?[/quote]

I feel like DME needs to send in a researcher - McKinsey type, or a PhD, somebody with a social science bent, to figure out how the highest demand, nominally citywide schools keep ending up being whiter and richer than the city.[/quote]

It’s not some big secret. UMC parents can afford to drive across the city for a good school and they have their act together enough to search for the best options. Many of these schools are far from wards 7 and 8 and don’t offer transportation. Combine that with things like no free before care and expensive aftercare.

Some charters try hard to recruit from lower income communities. But those applications are buried in a mountain of UMC applications. It’s a numbers problem.  [/quote]

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