2018-03-26（School choice May Be

There is no such thing as a coincidence in this world.There is only the inevitable.

school choice ,gentrification ,segregation

Phenomenon:

while affluent families were moving into low-income neiborghborhoods without sending their children to the neighborhood schools.

Aim:

benefit the current residents of failing schools

Conclusions:

1,School effect housing choices and that race is used by whice families as a proxy for school quality .

2,a positive : maintain or exacerbate school segregation can encourage residential integration .

                      There can be a restructing of urban poverty.

3,a downside : It is shifting a place from what it used to be ,in terms of not just demographics ,but perhaps people’s attachment to... the places there,and the norms that are present.

School Choice May Be Accelerating Gentrification - The Atlantic