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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, the use of GS ratings is an obvious violation of the fair housing act. Zillow, redfin, etc. definitely face some risk in using this on their listings.

My guess? Since there is a small to nill chance anyone would actually enforce this law because of the current political party in power, these businesses are leaving things as-is. [/quote]

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GS was used on these sites prior to the current administration.[/quote]

That doesn't make it okay.  [/quote]

You should be more specific as to how you think this violates the Fair Housing Act.  I'm sure Redfin and Zillow have lawyers who scrutinize what's posted on their listings.

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The methodology change essentially creates a way to capture schools that are racially and ethnically homogeneous in a fairly obvious manner.  It's akin to asking a realtor what schools have almost all white kids? That's against the law.

It's old method was plausible in that it basically just pulled testing data, but it didn't do the Langley trick of excluding data from homogeneous schools from applying to the rating. [/quote]

Apart from the fact that you haven't tied this to any statute or regulation, I don't think the analogy is very compelling.

We live in an age of greater transparency and data access.  You apparently don't want the data made available, because you think it leads to greater segregation, rather than to additional efforts to close the achievement gap.  That's debatable as a matter of policy (i.e., it could do both), but surely not the basis for a legal claim.   [/quote]

Not PP, but if it's an issue of data, the scores should be and are accessible as raw data through each state's DOE. There is literally nothing other than racism behind tying benchmark scores to real estate websites and then rewarding the schools without any diversity/without at-risk populations with higher GS scores. That's not giving you any more information about whether a school is "good" or not, it's highlighting the schools where students are homogeneously wealthy, and English language native speakers. I absolutely think it's doing exactly what realtors have been legally prohibited from doing by the Fair Housing Act.

That said, nothing is going to be done to stop this given who we have at HUD, in the White House, and on the Supreme Court. History will be our judge, though, and we will be found lacking. [/quote]

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