- The author envisions the plan through a system of “controlled choice†in which the parental choice of schools is honored with an eye to maximizing socioeconomic integration.
- Socioeconomic integration raises high school graduation rates, greater graduation rates lead to higher individual earnings and public savings to the point of exceeding the cost of integration.
- Socioeconomic integration may be a more cost effective reform than the reduction of class size, and private school voucher programs.
- Every one dollar spent today to promote socioeconomic integration of public education might be expected to yield through private earning, more than five dollars in the future (in constant dollars).