And with regards to closure, while I surely disagree with middle class Californians on many policy issues, I'm not sure that I think I know enough about their children to close schools that have
modest negative test impacts but high enrollment demand.
Perhaps the most surprising result of the analysis, reported in the figure below, is that the
modest positive correlation between
test scores and opt - out seen in the table above becomes
negative once free / reduced lunch is taken into account.