Nikole Hannah-Jones on sending daughter to struggling schools

Summarised from 2 outlets · 8 reports · Updated 24 Sept, 19:26 · Archive

Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to failing New York City public schools despite her wealth, according to reports.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the 1619 Project, sent her daughter to struggling New York City public schools as a matter of principle, according to multiple outlets. The education choice did not produce successful outcomes. A friend of Hannah-Jones, Jenisha Watts, subsequently chose private school for her own son after her own experience in struggling schools.

How it is being reported

• Nikole Hannah-Jones won’t face who actually runs the schools she knows are failingNikole Hannah-Jones blames racism for NYC school failures, ignoring the role of the teachers' union and promoted officials like Kamar Samuels.New York Post · 25 Sept, 00:01
• Nikole Hannah-Jones' friend sends Black son to private school after NYT writer has education regretsJenisha Watts says her own childhood in struggling schools convinced her to choose private school for her son over the path Nikole Hannah-Jones took.Fox News · 24 Sept, 19:06
• KAROL MARKOWICZ: 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones learned the hard truth about schoolsNikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to failing New York City schools to live out her progressive values, but her decade-long experiment ended badly.Fox News · 24 Sept, 10:00
• Nikole Hannah-Jones’ failed woke experiment — Sept. 24, 2026NYPost readers discuss Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay on the poor results of choosing a bad school for her daughter.New York Post · 23 Sept, 22:20
• Nikole Hannah-Jones ignores who failed her daughter — the teachers unionNikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a failing public school despite being a multimillionaire to make a point: That she’s not a hypocrite who sends her children to private school like other school-choice opponents.New York Post · 22 Sept, 23:31
• ‘Perverse priorities’ made Nikole Hannah-Jones put her cause before her childHannah-Jones should be furious at the adults who failed her daughter. But she still defends them — calling school choice a racist scam and complaining about a lack of resources.New York Post · 22 Sept, 11:30
• ‘1619 Project’ scribe Nikole Hannah-Jones has only BEGUN to face how she failed her daughterNikole Hannah-Jones makes it painfully clear that this part of her “fight for school equality for all Black children” . . . failed.New York Post · 22 Sept, 10:00
• Husband of 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones claims she belongs next to MLK as civil-rights icon — then bizarrely appears to contradict herFaraji Hannah-Jones, 50, balked at criticisms that he and his 1619 Project creator wife were parental “failures.”New York Post · 21 Sept, 20:20

In this story: Nikole Hannah-Jones · New York City · 1619 Project · Jenisha Watts

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