In New York City public schools, a student’s chances for educational success are more often determined by where he or she lives than their abilities. The city’s education policies and practices have resulted in an inequitable distribution of educational resources that intensifies the impact of poverty and denies certain students a meaningful education. Similar to the “redlining” banking practices that once denied investments to communities of color, the education landscape today effectively redlines students of color and low-income students from the resources they need to succeed.