- Racial composition of a school’s attendance area remains highly correlated with the school choices of non-poor whites, even when the economic composition of the school is held constant.
- School quality is significantly correlated with the probability that a student will apply to a magnet school.
- Segregation between the most and least disadvantaged race / economic groups is higher across all schools than it may be if no magnet program existed.
- Private choices have public consequences.
- Individual choices undergrad a great deal of segregation.
- Design of school choice programs must pay close attention to the role race plays in the way White families select schools.
- Unfettered school choice policies will increase segregation of race and class.