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Why I teach explicitly about race and racism when I teach education policy classes including school finance 1/x.
Neighborhoods were assigned greater lending risk (& lesser value) BECAUSE RESIDENTS WERE BLACK. In many metros, Black-White segregation NOW, follows 1939 redlining
Neighborhoods were assigned greater lending risk (& lesser value) BECAUSE RESIDENTS WERE BLACK. In many metros, Black-White segregation NOW, follows 1939 redlining
Layers of additional exclusionary practices - BASED ON RACE ITSELF... NOT SOMETHING ELSE... RACE - were embedded in mortgage lending policies and real estate practices, reinforce segregation and accumulated wealth gaps 2/x
Discrimination in mortgage lending persists to this day. 3/x
Housing value differences are large and persistent across segregated neighborhoods, and these partly translate into local revenue differences for schools which aren't ever fully corrected for by state aid - And it's BECAUSE OF RACE!
These are mostly Black-White disparities. Latinx school districts are particularly underfunded, with somewhat different causes: https://kappanonline.org/underfunding-latinx-serving-school-districts-baker-cotto/ One of which is that older white voters reduce support for school taxes WHEN STUDENT POPULATIONS BECOME MORE BROWN!
These are all features of public economics & public finance. Not merely racial correlates, or disparate patterns. Outright racial exclusions (HoA deeds), lending discrimination & borrowing costs tied to "risk factors" which were (in effect still are) BASED ON RACE!
You can't unpack any/all of this. You can't mitigate this. You can't repair this - WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT, AND FRAMING IT IN TERMS OF RACE! (whether wrapped in CRT, or just blunt reality! It just is!) Because that is how we got here! END... (for now).
And all of this is just one way that structural racism undergirds our education and economic systems:
A few more pictures... Connecticut (racial composition on left... funding gaps on right) @SecCardona (Funding gaps here set against low bar of $$ needed to achieve national average outcomes)
This one is especially crazy - Rhode Island funding gaps (in 2018) with 1939 redlining underneath:
And always among the worst - St. Louis area % Black enrollment (left) funding gaps (right) redlining underneath
Philly pretty comparable. Left - 1939 relining and 2018 school district % Black. Right - 2018 school funding gaps.
