Which Northeast city would be best for a black middle class family? (live, state)
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ML Carr was also the Celtics GM before Danny Ainge. Jim Rice has a field dedicated to him in Lower Roxbury/South End
BC also got many black players from the area under Al Skinner. They have again. Makai Ashton-Langford and Demarr Langford (Worcester), Mike Sagay (Bloomfield) were all on the team last year. Mike Sagay has left-but Gianni Thompson of Boston, and Jonathan Noel of Everett have joined the team. Before Terrence Clarke chose Kentucky, he had narrowed it down to BC and Kentucky. BC's head coach and two top assistants are all black as was our last Athletic Director.
I shouldn't say our- BC is the one Boston team I don't root for. I'm a UConn guy all the way.
Most top New England players opt for Providence or UConn though-as they should. After that is BC, then it is Harvard/URI then UMass, then Holy Cross/Vermont.
Yes, they did and he is a Long Island guy from Malverne HS/Lakeview, which is NY State's blackest community at 72.5% black and has a MHHI of 146,369.
Anyway, he did have a stipulation and that was he didn't want players that wore cornrows. I only know this, because of this interview with one of his former players that came from Schenectady, who ended up transferring to Purdue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKaJmG0ugNg (starts at 30:46, which you can go to directly. Good interview in general, if interested or have the time)
Just to throw a Wilmington area community out there, but New Castle a small city outside of Wilmington has a black MHHI of $69,722, a black poverty rate of 6.3%, a black educational attainment of 25.4% and it is 26.4% black non Hispanic(28.3% inc. black Hispanics and 30.5% inc. those in combo).
Another one is Bear, an area CDP, has a black MHHI of $77,500, a black poverty rate of 8.2%, a black educational attainment of 35.1% and it is 37% black non Hispanic(38.2% inc. black Hispanics and 40.6% inc. those in combo).
Middletown, another New Castle County community, has a black MHHI of $85,328, a black poverty rate of 7.9%, a black educational attainment of 31.5% and it is 26.4% black non Hispanic(27.2% inc. black Hispanics and 29.7% inc. those in combo).
Glasgow, just west of Bear, has a black MHHI of $79, 286, a black poverty rate of 7.3%, a black educational attainment of 36.6% and it is 23.8% black non Hispanic(24.4% inc. black Hispanics and 26.1% inc. those in combo).
New Castle is served primarily by the Colonial SD and partially by the Christina SD. Bear is served by the Appoquinimink, Colonial and Christina SD's. Middletown is served by the Appoquinimink and Colonial SD's. Glasgow is served by the Christina SD primarily, as well as the Appoquinimink SD.
The city of Wilmington is actually split among four different suburban school districts: Brandywine, Red Clay, Colonial and Christina.
This was done in the late 1970s as a way to integrate the city's by-then-just-about-all-Black high schools.
Our public radio news and information station, WHYY-FM (its sister TV station is actually licensed to Wilmington but has its main studio in Philadelphia), did an excellent report on the history that led up to this breakup of the Wilmington city school district and efforts to reverse it and bring back the city's three public high schools.
I dont know the history, would Newark exist if it weren't 15 minutes from Manhattan?
Yup. It was founded by Connecticut Puritans in 1666. Seems those Puritans were always decrying their brethren for not being pure enough, like the dissidents who left Harvard to found Yale:
The city of Wilmington is actually split among four different suburban school districts: Brandywine, Red Clay, Colonial and Christina.
This was done in the late 1970s as a way to integrate the city's by-then-just-about-all-Black high schools.
Our public radio news and information station, WHYY-FM (its sister TV station is actually licensed to Wilmington but has its main studio in Philadelphia), did an excellent report on the history that led up to this breakup of the Wilmington city school district and efforts to reverse it and bring back the city's three public high schools.
Good article…I thought that the 3 old HS’s would be around, but just within the current multi district set up. It is interesting that Howard, the historically black HS is still around, as in many cases, that is the HS that gets closed or becomes a school for lower grade levels.
Good article…I thought that the 3 old HS’s would be around, but just within the current multi district set up. It is interesting that Howard, the historically black HS is still around, as in many cases, that is the HS that gets closed or becomes a school for lower grade levels.
What I found equally fascinating was that the pride of the city, Wilmington High School, now houses two charter schools whose student bodies consist mainly of affluent white suburbanites: Cab Calloway, a performing-arts charter, and Charter High School of Wilmington.
This was what the Missouri state judge who finally closed the long-running Kansas City (Mo.) School District desegregation suit hoped would happen as a result of his order that the city school district build several lavishly equipped new high schools, for which taxpayers statewide would pay. It was a "Field of Dreams" approach: Build them and they will come.
Except they didn't.
Here, they didn't even have to build a new high school: just close the old one and offer it for use by charters. And kids from Bear to Brandywine Hundred flocked to them. (Bear is a middle-class southern suburb of Wilmington; Brandywine Hundred, a more affluent northern one near the Pennsylvania state line. The presence of the word "Hundred" in a Delaware place name comes from the 18th century and indicates that the community encompassed a territory from which 100 able-bodied men could be assembled to form a militia when needed.)
Another interesting point the article raises: We generally think of opposition to mandatory cross-district school busing as something white folks opposed out of fear, bigotry or racism. But as the article notes, many Black parents were no happier about it than white parents were: what they wanted was a quality education for their kids close to where they lived.
What I found equally fascinating was that the pride of the city, Wilmington High School, now houses two charter schools whose student bodies consist mainly of affluent white suburbanites: Cab Calloway, a performing-arts charter, and Charter High School of Wilmington.
This was what the Missouri state judge who finally closed the long-running Kansas City (Mo.) School District desegregation suit hoped would happen as a result of his order that the city school district build several lavishly equipped new high schools, for which taxpayers statewide would pay. It was a "Field of Dreams" approach: Build them and they will come.
Except they didn't.
Here, they didn't even have to build a new high school: just close the old one and offer it for use by charters. And kids from Bear to Brandywine Hundred flocked to them. (Bear is a middle-class southern suburb of Wilmington; Brandywine Hundred, a more affluent northern one near the Pennsylvania state line. The presence of the word "Hundred" in a Delaware place name comes from the 18th century and indicates that the community encompassed a territory from which 100 able-bodied men could be assembled to form a militia when needed.)
Another interesting point the article raises: We generally think of opposition to mandatory cross-district school busing as something white folks opposed out of fear, bigotry or racism. But as the article notes, many Black parents were no happier about it than white parents were: what they wanted was a quality education for their kids close to where they lived.
On the that last point, I think the part about black residents opposing busing, as it would likely take their children out to the suburbs, but not reciprocated the other way. Some likely also considered the identity of the community through its schools and could be the reason Howard was spared.
I’m also surprised by the make up of Cab Calloway and the Charter of Wilmington schools. You would think there would be a stipulation of a certain amount of city students within each of the two schools.
Just curious, but are there any schools that people can think of in the areas listed or in other areas within the region that fit that bolded criteria? Other schools that meet that criteria in the same portion the state: https://www.city-data.com/forum/61257056-post375.html
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