Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Matthew B. Kautz When I began my teaching career in Detroit, I entered my co-located high school with excitement about all the curricular possibilities. However, within days, it became painfully clear the school’s approach to discipline dominated the … [Read more...] about Past, Present, and Future: Making and Unmaking the School-Prison Nexus (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Housing/Education Nexus
There is a reciprocal relationship between residential segregation and segregated schools. Federal housing policy and historical patterns of housing segregation have created stark divides between wealthy, largely white communities with high property values and predominantly minority communities with more limited resources. Due to the local nature of school funding, communities with higher property value can generate more funding for schools, leading to more comprehensive educational resources and higher test scores, which in turn drives up the price of homes in the school district. In this way the socioeconomic and racial divisions between neighborhoods and schools perpetuate themselves in a vicious cycle. Just as residential and school segregation are mutually reinforcing, so too are the effects of residential and school integration. Children attending integrated schools are more likely to live in integrated neighborhoods as adults, and send their own children to integrated schools. The effects are reciprocal, working positively in both directions.
For more on PRRAC’s work on this topic, visit our page on the Housing-School Nexus.
Unintended Consequences of School Finance Reform? An Initial Exploration. (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Phil Tegeler Funding disparities between school districts are driven by racial and economic segregation, and yet progressive state legislatures have generally bypassed desegregation in favor of compensatory funding for districts with greater student … [Read more...] about Unintended Consequences of School Finance Reform? An Initial Exploration. (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Equitable and Diverse: Schools for the 21st Century (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) David Sciarra Every state constitution affirmatively mandates its legislature to maintain and support a system of elementary and secondary schools open to all children. This means that the states, not local school boards or the federal government, are … [Read more...] about Equitable and Diverse: Schools for the 21st Century (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Saba Bireda and Ary Amerikaner Policies that allocate resources to schools and policies that assign children to schools are clearly and deeply interconnected. Brown v. Board of Education’s decree that separate is inherently unequal was premised on the … [Read more...] about Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Separate and Unequal: The Need for a Nuanced Accounting of the Inequities Created by Segregation (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Ann Owens School segregation contributes to inequalities in educational and later life outcomes. Because of the long legacy of structural racism and income inequality in the United States, children from different backgrounds bring unequal economic, … [Read more...] about Separate and Unequal: The Need for a Nuanced Accounting of the Inequities Created by Segregation (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
