“Without serious reforms, LA’s best elementary schools will remain out of reach for middle- and low-income families,” researchers write at Available to All, a watchdog organization working to defend access to public schools.
“Top public schools, with reading proficiency rates of 70% or higher, have thousands of open seats yet deny access to those families that can’t afford to live in their pricey attendance zones.”
The group calls this “educational redlining” and argues it violates the precedent set in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
