NYC to add more than 200 school sports teams in $6M class action settlement

New York City will spend $6 million to add more than 200 new school sports teams in the settlement of a class action lawsuit that claimed the Department of Education provided unequal access to sports for Black and Latino students.

for clusters of smaller high schools to create umbrella sports programs where students from different schools can play. PSAL staff will survey students at the target schools to identify which sports the students want to play.

and created smaller schools between 2002 and 2008, one result was that students at the smaller schools were under-resourced compared to larger schools, said Jenny Veloz, a community organizer for NYPLI.

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