The Department of Education has tapped a consulting firm to probe diversity in District 30 — which includes Long Island City and Astoria — and to eventually propose a new zoning format.
Critics have argued that District 30’s schools are not racially representative of the area and that an admissions revamp would address those concerns.that eventually fizzled with the onset of the coronavirus.marked by frequent shouting matchesCommunity Education Council 30 member Kelly Craig said that parents whose kids go to schools in Long Island City’s more affluent areas have already been “villainized” by some.
“I don’t know when being able to have your kid walk to school became such an outrageous notion,” Craig said, adding that parents across the socio-economic spectrum share that preference. “Historically, the CEC has worked successfully with the DOE to engage our community on numerous zoning plans,” the letter states. “We know our community and our schools better than an outside, for-profit ‘consultant’ and can think of many better ways $80,000 might be spent that would directly impact our students.”
“If we just look back at history and our historically segregated school system, the history of the United States, if we take that in context and see what the opportunities and possibilities could be, maybe we have a chance to do good,” said Esther Verhalle, who backs CPRL’s involvement.
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