{"id":6872,"date":"2018-06-06T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2018-06-06T06:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:46:57","slug":"school-choice-may-lead-to-more-gentrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2018\/06\/06\/school-choice-may-lead-to-more-gentrification\/","title":{"rendered":"School Choice Policies May Increase Gentrification"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Throughout the United States, school years are wrapping up and families are making their summer plans. While at one time students could rely on their school-friends to be playmates for the summer, the prevalence of school choice policies — which allow students to attend schools outside of their neighborhoods — means that this is no longer the case.\u00a0<\/span>This spring, <\/span>CityLab<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>highlighted<\/a> social science research on the relationship between school choice policies and gentrification. Specifically, two recent studies found that school choice policies may create inequalities in housing even as they seek to alleviate them in education. <\/span><\/p>\n

Carla Shedd<\/span><\/a>, a sociologist who has written about challenges in urban education, notes, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is remarkable in this moment is that schooling and housing are decoupled in a way that hasn\u2019t been the case before.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, schools and neighborhoods no longer share the same fate. The emergence of school choice policies, such as charter schools and waivers from No Child Left Behind, allow well-off families to buy houses in lower-priced areas while still avoiding schools they perceive as undesirable. <\/span>Francis Pearman<\/span><\/a>, who published his <\/span>recent findings<\/span><\/a> with <\/span>Walker Swain<\/span><\/a> in <\/span>Sociology of Education<\/span><\/i>, told CityLab<\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs school choice expands, the likelihood that low-income communities of color experience gentrification increases.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Research<\/span><\/a> by\u00a0<\/span>Stephen Billings<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Eric Brunner<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Stephen L. Ross<\/span><\/a>\u00a0also supports this finding. Lottery policies from No Child Left Behind meant that families could move into areas with lower housing prices but send their child to school elsewhere. Since the law gave students in failing schools priority in the lottery, new residents in Charlotte exploited the law by moving into districts with schools deemed to be failing. In both instances, the ability to send a child to a school other than the neighborhood option meant that housing in low-income communities of color were more attractive to well-off White families, spurring gentrification but without improvement to the local schools in the area. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout the United States, school years are wrapping up and families are making their summer plans. While at one time students could rely on their school-friends to be playmates for the summer, the prevalence of school choice policies — which allow students to attend schools outside of their neighborhoods — means that this is no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,85,14],"tags":[29,34,123,18486,1142,39110,18860,371,39115,39111,429,37341,105590,19021],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-class","tag-education","tag-ethnicity","tag-gentrification","tag-housing","tag-inequality","tag-no-child-left-behind","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-school","tag-school-choice","tag-school-choice-policy","tag-socioeconomic-status"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}