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Secret Apartheid III: Follow Up to Failure

January 2, 2004

Third in a series by the New York ACORN office about racism in the New York City public schools

Key findings from this study include:

Children of color are dramatically underrepresented in gifted programs throughout the system.
Latino children are underrepresented in more than two thirds of the programs described by the surveys and occasionally over represented in a mere handful. White students are twice as likely to be over represented in a program as African American students and are over represented eight times more frequently than Latino students