McKinney is bracing for battle, with flyers warning of “apartheid” and a white “invasion.” Half a century earlier, when Dasani’s grandmother attended McKinney, the very notion of whites “invading” would have sounded extraterrestrial. The opposite was happening. Whites were fleeing. New York City’s school system—now the largest in the nation—is also among the most segregated. One percent of McKinney’s students are white. It is also true that the vast majority of Success Academy’s students (seven thousand are enrolled in fourteen schools) are Black or Latino and from low-income families. But
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