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Kahlenberg in The New York Times: Is It Possible to Desegregate the Nation’s Biggest School System?

  • June 20, 2024
  • Richard D. Kahlenberg

Richard D. Kahlenberg, a researcher at the Progressive Policy Institute who has written about school segregation, said one challenge for the city’s kindergarten model was that “when you’re talking about 4-year-olds, the concept of merit isn’t all that relevant.”

“It’s probably the most problematic aspect of the system,” he said.

Read more in The New York Times.

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