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Urban housing policy as school reform
- 09-16-2011
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Blog by Mark Bergen/Forbes
Certainly, I am not the only one excited about the launching of Atlantic Cities. On day one, the site has churned out some great thought-provokers. (Ryan Avent wrote a piece on Texas metropolises similar to my own, only better.) Matt Yglesias has a typically solid missive on urban school reform, a theme he has been running with of late: “Not only do better school districts benefit from well-known (and some not so well known) funding advantages, cities and towns become expensive precisely because they’re thought to offer high-quality public schools. Even in states such as Connecticut or California where advocates have succeeded in getting judicial orders to reduce funding disparities, the basic fact that people attend schools locally and affluent families want to live near good ones remains. […]” (more...)
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