This is not meant to be light reading. The archive itself is about a 21-minute read without opening a single link. Following the reporting, historical material, maps, district records and committee documents collected within it could take hours.
That’s intentional.
At the center of the archive is work commissioned by Superintendent Jonathan Raymond in 2021. He formally tasked the District-Wide Health & Safety Committee with identifying the obstacles that would have to be overcome to establish a neighborhood school in the Lincoln Attendance Zone. After months of work, the committee delivered its final report in May 2022 — effectively a roadmap of the practical questions that would have to be answered before the idea could become an actual school.
The purpose was not to decide the issue. It was to give proponents of a Lincoln school, the Board of Education and the district administration a shared factual starting point and a common vocabulary for a meaningful discussion about how to move forward — identifying the questions that had to be answered, the obstacles that would have to be overcome and the practical issues that any serious proposal would have to address.
Talk of the Sound has now assembled that work, the underlying district records and more than 17 years of our reporting on Lincoln School, the Lincoln Attendance Zone and the history of the desegregation case into one canonical archive.
This is intended as a resource for anyone seriously interested in how New Rochelle could actually establish a school in the Lincoln Attendance Zone — moving beyond rhetoric and aspiration to the practical work required to make it happen.
With the Lincoln school question back on the table, there is no reason to start again from zero.