Mavzuna Turaeva
School Segregation At The Classroom Level In A Southern 'New Destination' State
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceUsing detailed administrative data for public schools, we document racial and ethnic segregation at the classroom level in North Carolina, a state that has experienced a sharp increase in Hispanic enrollment. We decompose classroom-level segregation in counties into within-school and between-… more →
Parental preferences for charter schools in North Carolina: Implications for racial segregation and isolation
Topics: School ChoiceWe use information on the charter school choices made by North Carolina families, separately by race, who switched their child from a traditional public school (TPS) to a charter school in 2015-16 to explore how such choices affect racial segregation between schools and racial isolation within… more →
School Segregation in the Era of Color-blind Jurisprudence and School Choice
Topics: School ChoiceThe decades-long resistance to federally imposed school desegregation entered a new phase at the turn of the new century, when federal courts stopped pushing racial balance as a remedy for past segregation, adopting in its place a color-blind approach in judging local school districts’… more →