N.Y.C. Joins Growing List Of Districts Dressing the Same

By Adrienne D. Coles

Uniforms are growing on America's public school children.

One of the latest cases in point is the nation's largest district, where a whopping 72 percent of New York City's 675 elementary schools have adopted a standardized dress code. More than 565,000 students in kindergarten through grades 6 or 8, depending on how high the school goes, will be affected by the change in apparel.

The city's board of education approved a measure last year that required primary and elementary schools to implementa a uniform policy or opt out of the plan by the beginning of this month. ( "N.Y.C. Approves Plan for Uniforms in Early Grades," ...