Teachers unions, not racism, are failing New York City’s black students

Just two years after Nikole Hannah-Jones claimed she “made the right choice” in sending her daughter to a social-justice-oriented Brooklyn middle school, the race activist is back in the New York Times admitting she “failed both my values and my child.” But don’t expect any true introspection from the leader of the divisive 1619 Project about how her ideology failed her. Instead, Hannah-Jones continues to blame racism and imagined underfunding for her daughter’s deficient education, not government unions, which are the real cause of New York City’s persistent failure to educate public school students.

In a 2016 New York Times Magazine essay, Hannah-Jones explained why she sent her daughter, Najya, to P.S. 307, a low-income, black Brooklyn elementary school. Convinced that segregation caused educational inequality, Hannah-Jones believed that families such as hers could improve a school by enrolling their children in it.