Over the Counter, Under the Radar: Inequitably Distributing New York City’s Late-Enrolling High School Students

Each year between 2008 and 2011, more than 35,000 late-enrolling, high-need students were disproportionately assigned by the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to struggling public high schools, essentially setting up the students and schools for failure, according to a study from Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) detailed in this report.