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Integrating public schools by family income is a relatively new proposal in the education reform debate. To enhance equity in education, advocates have sought approaches that will not meet the judicial resistance that race has met when used to integrate schools. This paper provides a review of the proposal to integrate public schools by family income. It examines research on achievement by students of all income levels in schools with concentrated poverty, trends in racial segregation, and the case in support of plans to balance schools by family income. The paper also provides a summary of the plans in place in two school districts, the response of key policy players to these plans, and the possible challenges to wider implementation.

Author

• Kane, Robin

Identifier

• Volume 10

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.4079/pp.v10i1.4232

Keyword

• Policy Perspectives
• Education Policy

Date created

• 2003

Type of Work

• Article

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• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/2r36tz22p

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• All rights reserved

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