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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting. Here are the moco stats:

Per the map 90% of black and Latino kids are in majority non-white schools while being 21% and 26% respectively of the county's kids overall. 
47% of white kids are in majority white schools despite making up 34% of the county.

With whites being only 34% of the county it's interesting that a school that fit the county averages would be strongly non-white which probably helps some to account for the VERY high numbers of black & latino kids in non-white majority schools.

While housing policy could help with this challenge, it's not automatically the case that that is the only solution. Busing could be used - although of course it's politically challenging to consider. Also deciding to create a "down county consortium" that excludes the SW portion of "down county" is pretty funny. :) That was a school line decision made - not simply a natural housing policy consequence.

Changes in housing policy could do something about this but aren't the only way to address the segregation.

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Agreed.  But housing policy = school integration policy.  You really cannot separate them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/housing-segregation-is-holding-back-the-promise-of-brown-v-board-of-education/

I agree that the "down county consortium" really means the "have-nots consortium, we'll leave the western downcounty out of it."  LOL  On a related note, many of the neighborhoods in the eastern downcounty areas are districted to schools for economic diversity engineering, whereas this doesn't occur in the western downcounty areas.  W school students *could* be bused to e.g. Rockville or Gaithersburg or to the east.  But they are not.

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