Diversity in our schools
District 1 Admissions Policy History
Economic Data and Demographics
Do the economic levels of our schools' families correlate in some meaningful way to the comparisons of schools to our district's racial/ethnic demographics that are explored in the article Segregation Patterns in District 1 Schools? Initial explorations suggest that they do not.
[UPDATE - July 22, 2007: The graphs have been updated to omit the "D01 CBO" category, for which we had not Title I poverty data. And this makes it clearer that there is a tantalizing possiblity of a correlation in the "Hispanic" category (see below).]
Segregation Patterns in District 1 Schools
At the recent public meeting about admissions policies, one of the four key priorities for District 1 parents, endorsed by many speakers from the public, was that the "demographics of our schools should reflect the diversity of our district". I wondered to what extent this is or is not the case right now. Using data provided online by the DOE, specifically the "J-Form" available in the Statistical Summaries section of the DOE web site, I tried my hand at some analysis to see what I could determine about this. What follows is that analysis.
Ways for school districts to integrate their schools
Download the NAACP Legal Defense fund manual for communities looking to implement voluntary desegregation mechanisms in their schools, located at http://www.naacpldf.org/content/pdf/voluntary/Voluntary_K-12_School_Inte...
