Researchers Point To Slowing Suburban School Flight

USA Today (11/6, Toppo) profiles Brooklyn Prospect Charter School in New York City, which is "one of a small but growing group of schools that actively seeks to fill its seats with students from varied racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups. Researchers say schools like it are getting a boost from urban middle-class parents who are quietly saying 'No' to the typical suburban exodus once their kids reach kindergarten." The piece notes that rather than moving to seek better schools, parents are engaging schools to meet their children's needs. "Observers caution that the trend of white middle-class parents sticking with urban schools is still small and won't soon reverse the USA's decidedly mixed record on school integration since the 1954 US Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education, which declared 'separate but equal' schools unconstitutional."