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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we need to be careful not to conflate "school choice" with desegregation.

"School choice" has been demonstrated to negatively impact poor/working class kids and kids of color. This is because, as a PP noted, neighborhood schools suffer when all of the kids with financial or logistical advantages leave. In the vast majority of studies, school choice increases school segregation, so it is ineffective on many axes.

Desegregation works. Whether it is achieved through magnet programs, "busing," or boundary shifts - the data shows positive impacts on student outcomes as a result of desegregation.

The problem with desegregation was that it worked SO well that the court orders that had mandated desegregation efforts were allowed to lapse. The impact has been a re-segregation of the public school system. [/quote]

Don’t you see the difference between an all black underfunded school needing to be desegregated and an open public system of 1000000 people based off the neighborhood concept that just happen to fall into different neighborhoods? There is no white district or black, just community schools with different levels of overlap but none poisonously out of wack with the community. All the schools are also centrally funded so no “rich” school is hogging resources [/quote]

If you think that the land use in Montgomery County "just happened", then you should learn more about how the land use in Montgomery County came to be and what keeps it that way.[/quote]

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