By Lisa Colangelo and Ben Chapman
Fallout from an alleged effort to keep black and Hispanic kids out of a
sought-after elementary school in the Bronx has spread as the school’s
principal has been demoted, the Daily News has learned.
Andrea Feldman, former acting principal of Public School 24 in
Riverdale, was removed from her position of leadership at the school for
allowing a staffer for state Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz to register
incoming kindergarten students in the spring, Education Department
officials said.
PS 24 Assistant Principal Manny Verdi claims Dinowitz’s staffer was
allowed to screen kindergarten applications to keep minority and
low-income students out of the upscale neighborhood’s school.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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