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District 1 Admissions Policy History

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Attached is the set of slides used during the recent CEC meeting on admissions.

Economic Data and Demographics

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Do the economic levels of our schools' families correlate in some meaningful way to the comparisons of schools to our district's racial/ethnic demographics that are explored in the article Segregation Patterns in District 1 Schools? Initial explorations suggest that they do not.

[UPDATE - July 22, 2007: The graphs have been updated to omit the "D01 CBO" category, for which we had not Title I poverty data. And this makes it clearer that there is a tantalizing possiblity of a correlation in the "Hispanic" category (see below).]

NYS Assembly Bill 9113

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This bill from the 2003-2004 session modified education law to establish the community education councils. Of particular interest is section 14: 

7    § 14. Existing rules and regulations continued. Any rule or regulation
8  adopted by any community school board prior to  the  effective  date  of
9  this  act  which  is in force and effect on the date this act shall have
10  become a law, and which pertains to any matter within  the  jurisdiction
11  of  a  community  district  council  as  the successor of such community
12  school board, shall  be deemed to have been adopted  by  the  respective
13  community  district council as constituted pursuant to the provisions of
14  this act, and such rule or regulation shall continue in full  force  and
15  effect  until it is altered, modified, amended or repealed in the manner
16  as provided by law.

Segregation Patterns in District 1 Schools

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At the recent public meeting about admissions policies, one of the four key priorities for District 1 parents, endorsed by many speakers from the public, was that the "demographics of our schools should reflect the diversity of our district". I wondered to what extent this is or is not the case right now. Using data provided online by the DOE, specifically the "J-Form" available in the Statistical Summaries section of the DOE web site, I tried my hand at some analysis to see what I could determine about this. What follows is that analysis.

NYCLU states our case to DoE "Accountability Czar" and former desgregation attorney Jim Liebman

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NYCLU responds to OSEPO decision on admissions (May 2007)

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Former CSB President Delores Schaefer recaps 15 years of policy history: Choice and pre-K

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Dolores Schaefer 515 East 13 St. New York, NY 10007
home 212-533-1371 work 212-417-3731 dmschaefer@aol.com

April 4, 2007

Mr. Christopher Cerf
Deputy Chancellor
Department of Education
52 Chambers Street Re. District 1 Choice Plan &
New York, NY 10007 Pre-Kindergarten Policy

Dear Mr. Cerf:

Thank you for meeting with the delegation from District One last week regarding the issues surrounding the District’s Choice plan and long-standing policies and practices around full-day pre-kindergarten.

CEC Calendar meeting: Guest Speaker Marty Barr, Director of OSEPO

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Minutes from the discussion with CEC and community members on the new admissions policies and how they affect our district goals and principles.

Revision of admissions policy (1/22/02)

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iteration of the key principals to the district admissions policy,
that include:

parents and kids choose schools (and not the other way around)

valuing diversity

preference to siblings and district residents

Ways for school districts to integrate their schools

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Download the NAACP Legal Defense fund manual for communities looking to implement voluntary desegregation mechanisms in their schools, located at http://www.naacpldf.org/content/pdf/voluntary/Voluntary_K-12_School_Inte...

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