Housing Inequality and Access to Quality Education Intro
Housing inequality in modern-day America impacts much more than where you live. It impacts your access to healthcare, access to nutritious food, exposure to pollutants, and so much more. This section will focus on how housing inequality affects the access to quality public education. To show this relationship, the section covers how schools are funded, if money matters in educational outcomes, if PTA and parent fundraising matters, how affordable housing and redlining have affected the quality of schools, and what solutions have been offered to improve this relational inequality.
What Schools are Students Attending?
Before addressing the studies on how housing inequality impacts the quality of public education, it is also important to know where American students are attending school. If students are attending schools out of their zone, then the studies addressing housing location and assigned school quality have no barring. As you can see in the chart to the right, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, most students in the United States attend their local, assigned public school. This data signifies that schools in poorer districts are being attended by the students that live there.