Students can take classes across school boundaries, and Barnard diplomas are conferred by Columbia University and signed by the presidents of both institutions.
To improve the situation, the General Assembly has established minimum standards of educational achievement and has equalized funding for education across school districts.
Some parents have complained to school board officials about being unable to find the prekindergarten programs because they are scattered across school districts, away from school buildings.
None of us dare wear jewellery any more; the army and the narcos have taken to fighting it out across school playgrounds".
With desegregation orders losing favor in the courts, education reformers turned to the other main source of inequality in education, which desegregation advocates had thus far largely missed -- unequal financing across school districts.
In many American cities, especially in the north-east and Midwest, middle-class parents can choose from a variety of separate districts in nearby suburbs, leaving struggling cities behind.Nothing can be done about this because the Supreme Court ruled in 1974, in Milliken v Bradley, that desegregation cannot be required across school district lines, even if it is compulsory within them.
In 2006, when the Legislature voted to reduce property taxes, it promised school districts that they would receive no less per student than they had before, creating a system that resulted in financing differences between $5,000 and $10,000 per student across school districts.
In a strongly worded statement on Monday, the education secretary, Arne Duncan, said that despite "significant progress," New York had "hit a roadblock" in recent months, failing to put in place a planned database to track student records across school districts and failing to fulfill a promise to adopt a system to evaluate the work of teachers and principals.
6 Seniority-status may not be portable across school districts.
