Monday July 11, 12 - 1 pm: Moving poor kids to affulent school zones

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Would Baltimore's poorest school children catch up to their suburban peers if they went to school with them? Studies indicate that children from poor families get better grades if they live and attend public schools in more affluent areas. It happened in Montgomery County. An Abell Foundation report looks at Montgomery's pioneering requirement that developers set aside a portion of the homes they build for rent or sale at below-market prices. This 35-year-old "inclusionary zoning" ordinance has produced more than 12,000 moderately-priced homes, hundreds of which have been purchased by the county's public housing authority and rented to low-income families. A look at how inclusionary zoning effects student achievement and whether it could work in the Baltimore area. Our guests: the report’s author Heather Schwartz, an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, and Stefanie DeLuca, associate professor of sociology at the Johns Hopkins University.