- Minorities are under represented in magnet schools.
- The abandonment of neighborhood schools to magnet schools is selective (white / rich).
- Magnet schools reduce racial segregation across all schools while creating a racial and economic divide between magnet and neighborhood schools.
- Result is an increased concentration of poor students in racially and economically homogeneous schools.
- Economic characteristics of students are more important than their racial characteristics as determinants of school success.
- Magnet schools have created two important secondary consequences:
- 1) They have created a two-tiered system of schools within these two public school systems.
- 2) Have increased the degree of economic segregation, both between magnet and neighborhood schools and among neighborhood schools.