#SegregationIs

A conversation about segregation in schools

Our friends at ProPublica are investigating segregation in public schools. They’re building on our #GentrificationIs hashtag with a social media campaign of their own: #SegregationIs.

From ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones:

Segregation can influence whether your neighborhood is healthy or polluted. Whether it has liquor stores or coffee shops. Whether you have quality hospitals and access to enough doctors. Whether you have a grocery store nearby, and whether that grocery store sells quality food. It can affect whether you get a good home loan rate, or a predatory one. If the schools your kids attend have the best teachers or the least experienced ones. And whether your kids are offered the classes they’ll need to compete for admissions into college. Segregation affects whether your community has jobs and public services. Whether it has parks and green spaces. It shapes how likely you are to get cancer or asthma. Whether your baby is born prematurely. And whether your baby lives past the first six months.

Check out the first installment of ProPublica’s investigative series “Segregation Now” published in the New York Times. And join the conversation on social media: tell us what segregation looks like where you live, work and send your kids to school using the hashtag #SegregationIs.