Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Bruce D. Baker, Matthew Di Carlo, and Preston Green In the spring of 2022, our team released a report that explained the connection between decades of housing discrimination in the United States and deficits in school funding and student outcomes (Baker, … [Read more...] about Understanding the First, Second, and Third Order Effects on Disparities in K-12 Funding and Outcomes (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.
K-12 Schools Remain Free to Pursue Diversity Through Race-Neutral Programs (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. David G. Hinojosa Ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC (2023), there was great trepidation among the civil rights community and others on how far the ruling could extend … [Read more...] about K-12 Schools Remain Free to Pursue Diversity Through Race-Neutral Programs (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
The Lynchpin of Educational Inequality— And the Myth Behind It (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) Derek Black Racial segregation and unequal school funding persist at alarming levels. The percentage of intensely segregated schools serving students of color has increased in recent decades, more than tripling since the late 1980s. The gap between … [Read more...] about The Lynchpin of Educational Inequality— And the Myth Behind It (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
School Finance as Racial Subordination (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) Osamudia James In September 2021, The New York Times Magazine featured a story about school reform. The article, “The Tragedy of America’s Rural Schools,” considered population loss and government disinvestment as central to school reform. Featured in the … [Read more...] about School Finance as Racial Subordination (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
The Interconnection Between School Finance and 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) Introduction Nearly 70 years ago, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education framed racial segregation as the cause of educational inequality. But Brown and its progeny never seriously examined the ways in which inadequate school funding is … [Read more...] about The Interconnection Between School Finance and Segregation (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
