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By Susan Arbetter New York State UPDATED 7:24 PM ET May. 24, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:34 PM ET May. 24, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:34 PM EDT May. 24, 2021
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The East Ramapo Central School District in Rockland County has been troubled for years. At its heart, it’s educational segregation. On its face, it’s a collision of race and culture.
About 30,000 white children represent 99% of the private school population. These are ultra-Orthodox children who attend private Yeshivas.
About 9,000 students of color represent 96% of the public school population.
Yet fiscal monitors report that the school board, which is dominated by members of the ultra-Orthodox community, has funded bussing and special education for the Yeshivas, to the detriment of the public schools where teachers and programs have been cut, gr
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Reuters) â For more than 50 years, Interstate 81 has cut through the heart of hard-luck Syracuse, New York, raining vehicle exhaust on its Southside neighborhood, where most residents are Black and poor.
Now, New York State wants to replace that elevated stretch of freeway with a street-level boulevard to knit the cityâs urban grid back together. Construction could begin as soon as next year.
The plan has stirred visions of renewal in a city where one in three residents lives in poverty. Some here say it could also make amends to Black residents who were displaced by Interstate 81âs construction decades ago and have been living in its shadow ever since.