“We cannot just keep on saying, ‘This problem is too big — there’s nothing we can do about it,’” Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels, of the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, told a lawyer for the city at the time.

“Meanwhile, thousands and thousands and thousands of children keep on being graduated from a system that’s not teaching them,” she said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/nyregion/nyc-schools-segregation.html