《纽约时报》记者逼问教育局局长给出时间表和具体细节Madina Touré 纽约报道 —— 纽约市教育局局长卡马尔·塞缪尔斯周二晚发现自己陷入了舆论漩涡，调查记者妮科尔·汉娜-琼斯和一群学生对他未能明确提出解决公立学校种族隔离问题的计划进行了猛烈抨击。
The New York Times scribe pressed the schools chief to offer a timeline and specifics.
这位2020年因评论类作品获得普利策奖的《纽约时报》撰稿人，质问塞缪尔斯为何至今仍未全面落实市校园多元化咨询小组2019年提出的关键建议，其中包括取消倡导者认为会延续种族隔离的入学筛选机制。
By Madina Touré NEW YORK — New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels found himself in the hot seat Tuesday night as investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and a crowd of students laced into him over his failure to clearly lay out a plan to tackle segregation in public schools.
汉娜-琼斯与约800名学生及倡导者一同出席了在曼哈顿举行的一场市民大会，该活动由学生新闻非营利组织The Bell和倡导学校融合的组织New York Appleseed联合赞助。塞缪尔斯在由市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼任命为局长时，曾将融合列为核心优先事项，此前曾主导旨在推进学校融合的合并项目。周二晚，汉娜-琼斯反复逼问他如今身为局长将采取何种计划。
The New York Times writer, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for commentary, challenged Samuels to explain why he has yet to fully implement key recommendations made by the city’s School Diversity Advisory Group in 2019, including eliminating admissions screens that advocates say perpetuate segregation. Hannah-Jones appeared alongside about 800 students and advocates at a town hall in Manhattan, which was sponsored by The Bell, a student journalism nonprofit, and New York Appleseed, a school integration advocacy group. Samuels, who identified integration as a key priority upon being appointed chancellor by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, previously spearheaded school mergers aimed at advancing school integration.
“现在你是这个系统的掌舵人，尽管马姆达尼市长在竞选期间曾承诺，但该系统依然处于市长控制之下，因此现在无法再推卸责任，”她说道，引来一阵掌声。“你掌握着这个系统。所以，虽然我赞赏你今天所做的工作，但我们想谈谈你将要做的工作。
On Tuesday night, Hannah-Jones pressed him again and again to delineate his plans now that he’s chancellor. “Now you are the head of that system, a system that despite what Mayor Mamdani promised during his campaign, remains under mayoral control, and so there is no buck to be passed now,” she said, to a swell of applause.
“我不认为今晚来到这里的任何人是为了听客套话或模糊的宣言，”她补充道。
“You have the system. So while I appreciate the work you have done today, we want to talk about the work you will do.
汉娜-琼斯上个月在《纽约时报》上发表一篇关于她决定将女儿送入一所以黑人为主体、低收入学校的文章，在教育工作者和家长中引起轩然大波。许多人将其誉为推动该市学校融合的号角，但汉娜-琼斯本人在文中写道，她现在对自己做出这个决定感到自我怀疑。周二晚上的市政厅会议将关于此事的私下讨论推向高潮，汇集了这位作家、萨缪尔斯、学生、家长领袖和倡导者，共同辩论该市如何推进学校融合。
“I don’t think anybody here tonight came to hear platitudes or vague proclamations,” she added. Hannah-Jones made waves among educators and parents last month with an essay in The New York Times about her decision to send her daughter to a majority-Black, low-income school. While hailed by many as a clarion call for integration of schools in the city, Hannah-Jones herself wrote of how she now questioned herself for making that decision to send her daughter to the school.
萨缪尔斯一再为其以社区为导向的融合方法辩护，引用了正在制定以融合和学术严谨性为重点的提案的工作组。他说，政府正在通过与社区接触、建立这些对话的结构以及培养将领导这项工作的学监的能力来打基础。
Tuesday night’s town hall brought much of the private discussion of the story to a head, bringing together the writer, Samuels, students, parent leaders and advocates to debate how the city can advance school integration. Samuels repeatedly defended his community-driven approach to integration, citing working groups that are developing proposals focused on integration and academic rigor.
“我不认为融合学校的最佳方式是通过大张旗鼓的宣言，”他说。“我们以前见过这种情况，并且看到那不一定有效，因为会有组织化的抵制等等。所以我认为，我们必须与社区合作。”他对流程的强调并未让汉娜-琼斯满意，后者指责他接受了指导，以避免回答关于该市融合计划的问题。萨缪尔斯予以否认，并坚称政府已经在实施其方法的部分内容。
He said the administration is laying the groundwork by engaging communities, establishing structures for those conversations and building the capacity of superintendents who will lead the work. “I don’t believe the best way to integrate schools is by large proclamations,” he said. “We’ve seen that happen before and we’ve seen that that hasn’t necessarily worked because you have an organized resistance against that and so on. So what I believe is that we have to work with communities.”His emphasis on process did little to satisfy Hannah-Jones, who accused him of being coached to avoid answering questions about the city’s integration plan.
在学术入学筛选问题上，交锋变得尤其激烈。汉娜-琼斯质疑，为什么应该允许社区保留那些以牺牲其他儿童为代价，创造种族或学术上同质化学生群体的入学政策。
Samuels denied it and maintained that the administration was already carrying out parts of its approach. The exchange grew particularly contentious over academic admissions screens.
“凭什么一个社区能决定他们要创建一个同质化的学习社区？”她问道。
Hannah-Jones questioned why communities should be allowed to preserve admissions policies that create racially or academically homogeneous student populations at the expense of other children.
塞缪尔斯回应称，这些电子屏幕确实让学校的学生在学业上达到了某种水平，但他的观点引发了观众的嘘声。他认为，仅仅取消这些屏幕并不能解决教育资源分配不均的问题，并强调需要与当地社区共同制定改革方案。塞缪尔斯并未明确提出实施整合计划的具体时间表。
“Why should a community get to decide that they get to create a homogeneous learning community?” she asked. Samuels responded that such screens create schools where students perform at a certain academic level, which drew boos from the audience. He argued that eliminating screens alone would not resolve segregation and reiterated that reforms needed to be developed with communities.
这场激烈的公开讨论发生在曼达尼政府面临日益巨大的压力之际——政府需要制定更详细的计划，以解决公立学校中的种族与社会经济不平等问题。这些公立学校仍然是全国教育资源分配最不均衡的学校之一。
Samuels did not offer a firm timeline for implementing an integration plan. The heated town hall comes as Mamdani’s administration faces mounting pressure to develop a more detailed plan to address racial and socioeconomic segregation in public schools, which remain among the most segregated in the country.
汉娜-琼斯发表她的文章后，这种压力进一步加剧了。当时，塞缪尔斯担任布鲁克林第13学区的教育主管，她的孩子就读于P.S. 307学校。当汉娜-琼斯向塞缪尔斯求助时，他安排了一名额外的教师来帮助她的女儿以及其他学习落后的学生赶上其他同学。虽然汉娜-琼斯在文章中没有直接提到塞缪尔斯的名字，但她后来确认他就是当时的教育主管。
That pressure intensified after Hannah-Jones published her recent essay. At the time, Samuels was superintendent of District 13 in Brooklyn, where her daughter attended P.S. 307. When Hannah-Jones requested help from Samuels, he assigned an extra teacher to help her daughter and other lagging students catch up. While Hannah-Jones did not name Samuels in her essay, she has since confirmed that he was the superintendent.
曼达尼已经明确表示，消除学校系统中的种族隔离现象是政府工作的重点。
Mamdani has signaled that desegregating the school system is a priority for the administration.