Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of
residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today — including New York City — with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty.
Not exact matches
Residential segregation by race, age or social or
economic class would no longer be a major problem, for the whole city would be a single unit.
The variation is so extreme due to histories of de jure
residential segregation, federal housing policies until the last thirty years or so, and histories of
economic development and migration that vary from place to place.