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Every year thousands of kids across our country are turned away unfairly or illegally from public schools. That has to change. It's time to ensure public schools are available to all kids. Join us in this fight: availabletoall.org #AvailableToAll #PublicEducation

.@NYSEDNews Commish Betty Rosa and the Bd of Regents should investigate overlap between public school enrollment zones and racist housing "redlines" to ensure all kids get a shot, @Available2All Pres. Tim DeRoche tells @poozer87 on @CapPressRoom. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rep…

Myth-Busting March MYTH #3: “School choice increases segregation.” Let’s be honest: School access has been tied to ZIP code for decades. And ZIP codes are tied to income and/or systemic redlining. School choice breaks that link. Research reviews show choice programs often improve integration—or have no negative effect. Choice doesn’t create inequality. It gives families a way out of it. @Available2All @afcpress @valeriagurr Myth #4 next week.

.@rweingarten: Education is the great equalizer. @DianeRavitch: Your local public school welcomes everyone. Are these statements actually true? In progressive New York, the answer is often no. 🧵

🧾 And we have the receipts on those quotes: @rweingarten: thehill.com/blogs/congress… @DianeRavitch: dianeravitch.net/2023/02/03/fro… @ZohranKMamdani: nytimes.com/2025/12/02/nyr… @AOC: the74million.org/article/willia…

Without leadership on this issue, New York risks continuing to live with a troubling distinction: the “epicenter of educational segregation.” That’s according to @orfieldtweet of @CRPatUCLA. civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/reports/new-yo…

“Public schools must be ‘available to all on equal terms,’ and … if you look at the system we have across the country, you can see that we are falling so far short of that — and the primary reason for that is that we assign kids to schools based on their address."--@timderoche

@Available2All Here's the story in @The74: the74million.org/article/report…

Report: "Educational redlining" helps keep NY schools the most segregated in the U.S. @The74 the74million.org/article/report… @Available2All

Report: Schools Across New York Are The Most Segregated in the U.S. Many school attendance zones in New York City, upstate New York, Westchester and Long Island are similar to 1930 redlining maps, the report shows. @Available2All @timderoche the74million.org/article/report…

The most segregated public schools in America? New York. And across the state, attendance zones that mirror 1930s redlining maps are keeping kids out of better public schools--often just minutes away. More from @The74 on our new report: na2.hubs.ly/H04llfh0

Read the full report: availabletoall.org/report-and-sta…

🗽 New York is progressive through and through. So how did it become the “epicenter of educational segregation”?

"Notably, just 1.1 miles from P.S. 16 Wakefield is Bronx Charter School for Excellence 3, with 512 students—96% Black and Hispanic and 80% proficient in reading. Rather than seeking access to another mediocre nearby public school, efforts should focus on expanding schools like Bronx Charter School for Excellence 3, which delivers excellent education to most low-income and minority students." thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute/p/educational-…

Here’s the catch: students at “persistently dangerous” schools have a federal right to transfer to safer schools But when no schools qualify bc of how offenses are defined, students effectively lose that right More in @nypost: nypost.com/2026/03/11/opi…

NEW: NY schools supposedly became less chaotic & violent after the pandemic, but bullying & drug use got worse Something isn’t adding up 🤨 My latest @nypost breaks it down 🧵

The common thread: these reforms loosen the link between home address and public school access. Exclusionary attendance zones would no longer have the final say over a child’s education and future. What other steps should New York’s policymakers take to open up public schools to all children? Read the full report: availabletoall.org/report-and-sta…

✅ Require coveted public schools to save at least 15% of their seats for students living in other attendance zones or districts. ✅ Give all students the opportunity to apply to any public school within 3 miles of their home address. ✅ Stop prosecuting parents for using a different address to enroll their child in a better public school.

This was @NYCSchools response to our new report, And Stay Out! Here’s the thing: it’s hard to guarantee every student “access to a high-quality education” with a system built on exclusionary attendance zones. So what reforms could state leaders take up to expand opportunity for all students? Here are a few options for the legislature and @GovKathyHochul ⤵️