A week before classes start, NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels highlights priority to desegregate districts

As New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels gears up for the start of his first full academic year in charge of the city’s sprawling school system of nearly 1 million students and over 1,500 schools, he took the opportunity to highlight what he sees as a top priority coming into the role: Desegregating the city’s historically racially divided school districts. At a Wednesday breakfast hosted by New York Law School, Samuels told an audience of lawyers, professors, governmen