Alaska Policy Forum
By Online Editor
Jonathan Rothwell at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute has completed a study to document the cost of housing and its relationship to school performance. It makes a difficult read. To describe it as ludicrous would be putting it very gently. Mr. Rothwell blames the lack of high performing schools on poor housing zoning policies. (And I believed the most important variable in getting a good education was the teacher in the classroom!) Who could have believed it was as simple as “managing” housing in a community? Apparently, if everyone lived in a wealthy neighborhood, then the schools in those neighborhoods would be high performing. This is some very serious stuff-economic segregation.
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