{"id":58,"date":"2018-04-10T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-obean\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2020-12-21T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:49:16","slug":"teachers-of-color-as-activists-and-organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-tmsun\/","title":{"rendered":"The NYC Public School System And Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City has the largest public school system in the United States, one that has been heavily impacted in recent months by Covid-19. This system is also one of significant racial segregation; 74.6 percent of Black and Latinx students attend a school with less than 10 percent of white students, and 34.3 percent of White students attend a school with more than 50 percent white students (New York City Council, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>The numbers paint a stark picture of the racial divide in a public institution heralded by many to be a great equalizer, and also implicitly point to a socioeconomic divide in public schools; Black and Latinx students in New York City experience higher levels of poverty than White students, a reality that carries over into students\u2019 educational resources and classroom experiences (Mayor\u2019s Office For Economic Opportunity, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>These realities are crucial to acknowledge in the discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic and its interaction with the experiences of teachers and students in New York City. This case study is centered on the <a href=\"https:\/\/morecaucusnyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Movement of Rank-And-File Educators (MORE)<\/a>, a grassroots teachers organization fighting to improve teaching and learning circumstances in New York City\u2019s segregated school system. MORE has employed a variety of organizational techniques associated with Paulo Freire and Ella Baker to push for educational equity and safety in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City has the largest public school system in the United States, one that has been heavily impacted in recent months by Covid-19. This system is also one of significant racial segregation; 74.6 percent of Black and Latinx students attend a school with less than 10 percent of white students, and 34.3 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-tmsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-tmsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-tmsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-tmsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-tmsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-tmsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-tmsun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}