Exclusionary zoning, the kind that disallows transfer permits from outside the district and criminalizes parents for "residency fraud" when they simply try to send their kids to a better school than the one they're zoned for, would help close the achievement gap. A new study argues that home values and achievement are linked, and that low-income kids do better in schools where the community is more affluent, therefore pointing to the need for *inclusionary* school residency policies.
The Link Between Housing, Education, and Opportunity
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Reforming discriminatory zoning laws and taking other steps to promote residential and school integration could have potentially large benefits to the nation's future by making educational opportunity more equal.
