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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe the city should offer race-based incentives (tax breaks, low-interest loan programs) for families with children to move into majority white neighborhoods?  It wouldn't change the economic diversity very much, but it would incentivise more diversity in majority-white neighborhoods.[/quote]

That would be highly unconstitutional[/quote]

Then why would eliminating neighborhood schools, and going to a city-wide school model be constitutional, when it would not increase city-wide diversity in schools?  Remember, only 10% of DCPS students are white.  What would eliminating neighborhood schools accomplish, as a practical matter?[/quote]

Seriously?  Eliminating neighborhood schools would not be unconstitutional, it'd just be a bad idea.

As a practical matter it would devastate neighborhoods, cause a population exodus, and lower tax receipts thereby becoming a vicious cycle that would cause long term harm to the city.

47% of the city is black and 45% is white.  If you want to increase diversity in the public school system then there are two choices: getting more black students out of the system and into private schools or getting more white kids into the system and out of private schools.[/quote]

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