| Minneapolis Schools, like most school
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| | overwhelming the building capacity of the
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| districts, struggles with diversity. They
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| | more desirable schools.
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| struggle with making sure their schools
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| | The Minneapolis Schools have looked at
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| are not segregated based on color or
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| | various options to aid parent choice. But
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| economic status. That is difficult when
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| | some things, like providing
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| people of like economic status tend to
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| | transportation for students who choose
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| live in certain areas.
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| | not to attend their neighborhood schools,
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| One of the ways Minneapolis Schools
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| | is almost impossible to fit into an
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| achieves this is through parent choice.
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| | already stretched budget.
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| Parents in Minneapolis Schools are given
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| | Minneapolis Schools labels schools as
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| options such as private school vouchers,
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| | "racially identifiable" if they are not
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| charter schools, and opting to send their
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| | adequately desegregated. These schools
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| children outside of their neighborhood.
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| | receive funding to attract students into
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| Although this program has done a good job
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| | their buildings- but this doesn't always
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| of helping to desegregate schools, there
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| | work.
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| are some areas in the Minneapolis Schools
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| | Upper income white parents hesitate to
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| where this has had the opposite affect.
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| | send their children into lower income
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| There are some Minneapolis Schools where
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| | neighborhoods, even when the education
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| white students are transferring out of
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| | itself is comparable. There is some
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| schools where they are already the
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| | rational basis to this as studies have
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| minority, and students of color are
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| | shown that students can be pulled wither
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| transferring into these schools. One of
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| | up or down by their academic
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| the obstacles to this program is that
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| | surroundings. So bringing better-educated
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| there simply are not enough white
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| | families into these poorer areas is
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| students enrolled in the Minneapolis
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| | likely to benefit the lower income
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| Schools to balance the numbers. Another
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| | families, but there is fear that it will
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| obstacle is that students struggling to
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| | negatively impact the students from the
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| transfer into these schools are
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| | upper income families.
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