School choice
improves racial integration by breaking down the relationship between residence and school:
However, new research from two PhD students at the University of Arkansas shows that Louisiana's school choice program
improves racial integration, further undermining the DOJ's claims to the contrary.
However, new research shows that Louisiana's school choice program
improves racial integration.
Contrary to allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the scholarship program
improves racial integration in public schools in 34 districts under desegregation orders
Ed Next also published a timely study this fall looking at the effects of the vouchers on segregation «The Louisiana Scholarship Program: Contrary to Justice Department claims, students transfers
improve racial integration»
The DOJ claimed the voucher program imperiled desegregation efforts but two studies showed that the vouchers actually
improved racial integration.
The absurdity of the DOJ's lawsuit was further exposed when two studies by researchers at the University of Arkansas and Boston University revealed that the net effect of the voucher program was to
improve racial integration.
Not exact matches
The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly
improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the
racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»
We identify as
integration -
improving student transfers those that move a school's
racial composition closer to that of the relevant CBSA benchmark.
Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly
improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the
racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.
She has worked with national organizations to present social science evidence in U.S. Supreme Court cases on
racial integration, on state and national initiatives to
improve interracial relations in schools, and with non-governmental and international organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce
racial and ethnic conflict.
The study offers several recommendations for restoring equity provisions and
integration in charter schools, including establishing new guidance and reporting requirements by the Federal government; federal funding opportunities for magnet schools, which have a documented legacy of reducing
racial isolation and
improving student outcomes; and incorporating some features of magnet schools into charter schools.
After decades of improvement, efforts to
improve integration on
racial and socioeconomic measures have stagnated or moved backward in public schools.
Second, would
racial integration improve the equity of learning outcomes in general and in the Louisville and Seattle districts that are the subjects of the Court case?
It is necessary for LAUSD magnet high schools to put more effort into achieving
racial integration so that students who attend these schools can benefit from
integration and so that
racial relations in society may be
improved.