Re:An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty
by tptacek on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @01:06AM
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There's a difference between demographic info being available for a school and it being on the front page of the school's site. Before clicking through your Chicago link, I tried to find a CPS school site that made demos easy to find, and came up empty. You've hotlinked to the fact sheet for a specific school to make your point, which isn't entirely fair.
I live in Oak Park, and my kids go to OPRF, which is 53/37 white/(latino|african-american). Minorities are (thankfully) overrepresented in the school. Oak Park (a/k/a/ "The People's Republic Of Oak Park") isn't conservative, and the (tiny) village is a haven for well-off white families who want to live close to the city without sending their kids to CPS schools. Lower-income families rent apartments along Austin Ave, or Section 8 houses on blocks like mine, and manage to get their kids into Oak Park schools without too much trouble.
I live in Oak Park, and my kids go to OPRF, which is 53/37 white/(latino|african-american). Minorities are (thankfully) overrepresented in the school. Oak Park (a/k/a/ "The People's Republic Of Oak Park") isn't conservative, and the (tiny) village is a haven for well-off white families who want to live close to the city without sending their kids to CPS schools. Lower-income families rent apartments along Austin Ave, or Section 8 houses on blocks like mine, and manage to get their kids into Oak Park schools without too much trouble.