A recent study conducted to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education found that school segregation has increased over the past three decades, especially in urban areas. The researchers cited the proliferation of charter schools as one of two main reasons why segregation has exacerbated during this period, demonstrating an association between places with charter school growth and increases in segregation over the time period in question.1Yet public charter schools, and other types of public schools on the school choice continuum (such as magnet schools and some “innovation zone” schools), in theory, should have several advantages over traditional zoned district schools in combating segregation because of their ability to eschew constraints that otherwise often reproduce or exacerbate residential segregation in schools.
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Table of Contents
- How Charter, Magnet, and Innovative District Schools Can Help Overcome School Segregation 1
- STEFAN LALLINGER 1
- How Choice Impacts School Segregation 2
- FIGURE 1 2
- What Public Choice Schools Do Well 3
- Commitment to Diversity: Larchmont Charter 3
- Strategic Siting and Recruitment across Various Communities: Citizens of the World Schools 4
- Strategic Enrollment Practices: Downtown Montessori at Ida B. Wells 6
- Attractive Themes: Magnet Schools in Wake County Public Schools 6
- TABLE 1 7
- Looking Ahead 8
- Appendix 8
- FIGURE A1 8
- FIGURE A2 8
- Notes 8
- Stefan Lallinger, Executive Director of Next100 and Senior Fellow 9
- LATEST 9
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- Educators Need a Clearer Picture of Asian-American Diversity 10
- New TCF Poll: American Families Value Bilingual School Options 11
- Testimony: Immigrant Students Make Our Schools and Our Country Stronger 12
- Fostering Integration in Early Childhood Settings: Implications for Policy 12
- Equitable Access, High Quality Programming: A New Framework for Dual Language Education 13
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