• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Press Room
  • Poverty & Race Journal
  • Donate
  • Publications
    • PRRAC Publications & PRRAC Authors
    • PRRAC Policy Briefs
    • PRRAC Advocacy Resources
  • Events
  • Contact

PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy

Poverty & Race Research Action Council

MENUMENU
  • Fair Housing
    • Fair Housing Homepage
    • Federal Housing Advocacy – by Program
    • Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
    • Housing Mobility (Section 8)
    • Low Income Housing Tax Credit
    • Fair Housing and Community Development
  • School Diversity
  • Environmental Justice
  • Special Projects
    • Civil Rights History
    • Civil Rights & The Administrative State
    • Housing-School Nexus
    • International Human Rights and U.S. Civil Rights Policy
    • One Nation Indivisible: School Diversity, Immigrant Integration, and Multi-Racial Coalitions
    • PRRAC in the Courts
    • CarsonWatch
    • Alliance Housing Justice
  • Search
    • Search

You are here: Home / Browse PRRAC Content / PRRAC Update / PRRAC Update (September 13, 2012): New MTO findings; and school diversity in the party platforms

PRRAC Update (September 13, 2012): New MTO findings; and school diversity in the party platforms

September 13, 2012 by

Important new MTO analysis from the Urban Institute:  Many advocates and practitioners were puzzled by last year’s findings from the “Moving to Opportunity” experiment that found significant health and mental health benefits for low income families moving to low poverty neighborhoods, but not higher employment or educational attainment as a group.  One popular explanation for the reported education outcomes was that many children were either not changing schools, or moving to a school in the same school district.  This week, new research from the Urban Institute suggests that the length of residence in a higher opportunity neighborhood may also be an important factor in long term outcomes.  In fact, according to the Urban Institute, “MTO families that lived for longer periods in neighborhoods with lower poverty did achieve better outcomes in work and school, as well as in health.”  Read the report here, and an Urban Institute summary here.

Learning from Voucher Families:  In other housing mobility related news, we have just posted an interesting powerpoint, “Learning from Voucher Families: Close Ups of the Search and Relocation Process in Mobile & Baltimore,” recently presented by Professor Stefanie DeLuca at HUD (and based on a forthcoming academic article).

Does School Diversity Appear in the Party Platforms?  The answer may not surprise you. Read more.

Other news and resources

Unequal Education: Lower Spending on Students of Color:  The Center for American Progress recently released a report based on data collected by the U.S. Department of Education, which for the first time collected information regarding school-level expenditures including real teacher salaries.  The report, “Unequal Education: Federal Loophole Enables Lower Spending on Students of Color” explores Title I’s “comparability loophole”, and bucks conventional wisdom in finding that approximately 40% of variation in per pupil spending occurs within districts.  The report concludes that students of color are being shortchanged across the country when compared to their white peers. 

More innovative work from King County:  The first annual report of the King County “Equity and Social Justice” initiative, released last month, highlights 14 determinants of equity and baseline markers to assess progress and areas for improvement in racial equity and social inclusion. The report includes maps and other statistics that reveal inequities across King County by place, race and income, and the factors that contribute to opportunity and quality of life. To see the report, go to www.kingcounty.gov/exec/equity.aspx.

A Municipal Guidebook to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing:  A valuable new resource from the Chicago-area Oak Park Regional Housing Center —“Building Community, Building Opportunity.”

Filed Under: PRRAC Update

Primary Sidebar

PRRAC Updates

PRRAC Update (January 14, 2021): Cashin on “Whitelash”; More HUD and ED Developments

PRRAC Update (December 22, 2020): 30th Anniversary Issue; and Another Victory for School Integration

PRRAC Update (December 10, 2020): Recommendations for a new AFFH rule + school integration goals for the first 100 days

Previous Updates...

PRRAC in the News

Billions in School Construction in CT Hasn’t Made a Dent in Segregation — But This Year, Things Could Be Different (Connecticut Mirror)

January 4, 2021

Education Dept. Gets $73.5 Billion in Funding Deal That Ends Ban on Federal Aid for Busing (Education Week)

December 22, 2020

Massachusetts’ Public Schools are Highly Segregated. It’s Time We Treated That Like the Crisis It Is (Boston Globe)

December 11, 2020

Opinion: A Truly Life-Changing Voucher Program is Within Reach for Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (Cleveland.com)

October 12, 2020

Previous Posts...

PRRAC on Twitter

Tweets by @PRRAC_DC

Poverty & Race Journal

Footer

PRRAC – Poverty & Race Research Action Council

The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More

Archives

Resources at PRRAC

  • Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
  • Environmental Justice
  • Fair Housing
  • Fair Housing & Community Development
  • Low Income Housing Tax Credit
  • Poverty & Race Journal
  • PRRAC Update
  • School Diversity
  • Housing Choice Voucher Mobility
  • PRRAC in The Courts

Copyright © 2021 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in var _ctct_m = "7608c7e98e90af7d6ba8b5fd4d901424"; //static.ctctcdn.com/js/signup-form-widget/current/signup-form-widget.min.js

PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy

  • Fair Housing
    • Fair Housing Homepage
    • Federal Housing Advocacy – by Program
    • Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
    • Housing Mobility (Section 8)
    • Low Income Housing Tax Credit
    • Fair Housing and Community Development
  • School Diversity
  • Environmental Justice
  • Special Projects
    • Civil Rights History
    • Civil Rights & The Administrative State
    • Housing-School Nexus
    • International Human Rights and U.S. Civil Rights Policy
    • One Nation Indivisible: School Diversity, Immigrant Integration, and Multi-Racial Coalitions
    • PRRAC in the Courts
    • CarsonWatch
    • Alliance Housing Justice
  • Search
  • About
  • Press Room
  • Poverty & Race Journal
  • Donate
  • Publications
    • PRRAC Publications & PRRAC Authors
    • PRRAC Policy Briefs
    • PRRAC Advocacy Resources
  • Events
  • Contact