Redlining in the Classroom: How Historical Housing Policies Still Shape Public Schools
Excerpt from the Essay
“Redlining may have started as a housing policy, but it metastasized into a broader architecture of exclusion. And nowhere is that clearer than in our public schools. Until we confront this legacy directly—until we fund all schools equitably, redraw districts fairly, and invest in communities previously redlined—we will continue to reproduce the very disparities we claim to abhor.”