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United States

15% Fewer 5-9 Year OldsKC School District

Overland Park 36% More 5-9 Year Olds

1. Politicians draw school boundaries. 2. People will vote with their feet.3. Spatial Sorting

–School Qualities differ– Income Levels and Property Values

Who gets the Worst Schools?•Poor people•Anybody who lives around poor people

•Economic Segregation•Spatial Mismatch•Reduces Social Mobility•Increases Inequality

• Suburban Sprawl• Urban Blight • More Traffic• More Roads• Air Pollution• CO2 Emissions

Voting with their Cars

Family Flight Rates

Kansas City -15% St. Louis -18% Chicago -11% Columbus -20% Cleveland -8% Cincinnati -17% Pittsburgh -14% Nashville -16%Atlanta -15%

What impacts do school choice programs have on foot voting?

Tuitioning Systems (since 1869)

• 93 Districts without public schools • Tuition paid • Public or Independent• In-state or out

C worth $24k more than B

Journal of Housing Research

Sharon Academywhere students come from

Where Sharon Students go

The Edgewood Experiment

Schools that Ignore the Lines (NEA)

Crime Dropped

•School choice lottery winner commit fewer crimes.

•They spend fewer days in jail.

•Minority males - about 50% less crime.

It Makes a Village: Residential Relocation after Charter School Admission

Franklin Academy Wake Forest, NC

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