When School Desegregation Ends: Policy Changes and Outcomes

• In Event: 52.053 - Racial Diversity, Integration, and Equity

Abstract

Over the last two decades, hundreds of school districts have been released from school desegregation orders, and, in response, the districts changed the policies assigning students to schools (i.e., student assignment policies). An emerging literature has begun to examine the effects of ending school desegregation requirements on school segregation, but less attention has been paid to the details of student assignment policy changes. This paper extends previous studies by paying close attention to the details in student assignment policies and examines differential effects of the types of student assignment policies that have followed in districts after release from school desegregation orders. In addition, I examine the effects of these policy changes on residential segregation by both race and income.

Author

• Sun Jung Oh, Syracuse University