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Article #95: Minneapolis Schools Struggle With Diversity

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






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