Expanding the Understanding of School Concentrated Disadvantage Using Free and Reduced-Price Meals Data: Links to College and Labor Market Outcomes in Maryland

The illusion of choice: the realities of a compulsory public school choice program and its impact on opportunity

“…This demonstrates that segregation continues to have a strong, pervasive, negative impact on the lives of minority students, regardless of having overcome challenges of historically maintained oppression. Another consequence of school choice and segregation-the concentration of poverty within schools-is associated with worse educational outcomes for students, regardless of the level of poverty they experience at home (Henneberger et al, 2019). Even if a family has access to adequate resources, attending a school with concentrated levels of poverty is associated with poorer academic outcomes.…”