Parents locked into strict school boundaries and forced to send their children to subpar schools have developed clandestine networks to circumvent what they view as “unfair” local laws to get them into better ones.
Why it matters: Rigid school boundaries often reinforce racial and economic segregation, experts say, and these parents believe they are simply going around unjust laws that foster inequality.
The big picture: As the U.S. marked the 70th anniversary this month of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling that banned separating schoolchildren by race, two new reports fault strict school boundaries for reinforcing segregation.
