Study: Schools have role in income segregation
By Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times
It’s no secret that in searching for a home, parents scrutinize nearby schools. The wealthy can afford to live in neighborhoods with small school districts, where most other students are wealthy, too.
Now, a new study out of USC lends credence to the notion that this decision-making process is partially responsible for the rise in America’s income segregation between 1990 and 2010.
In the country’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, “income segregation is nearly twice as high among households with children as among those without,” according to the study from USC sociologist Ann Owens, published in the American Sociological Review in late April.