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)
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.
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)
Connecting magnet schools and public housing redevelopment: January 2023 update
Darryn Mumphery and Philip Tegeler Excerpt: PRRAC’s March 2021 policy brief, Mixed income neighborhoods and integrated schools: Linking HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative with the Department of Education’s Magnet Schools Assistance Program, highlighted an important opportunity for interagency collaboration, encouraging an explicit connection between HUD’s Choice … [Read more...] about Connecting magnet schools and public housing redevelopment: January 2023 update
Post-Move Supports Can Increase the Likelihood of Long-Term Benefits from Housing Mobility Programs (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) Adria Crutchfield, Ann Lott, and Valerie Rosenberg Housing mobility programs provide support and information that fundamentally increase choice and self-determination for voucher holders. This is a benefit in and of itself, but we know, too, that such choice … [Read more...] about Post-Move Supports Can Increase the Likelihood of Long-Term Benefits from Housing Mobility Programs (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)