Legal Applications

1. Legal Applications Education applications and potential use for liability and remedy

2. Opportunity Mapping and Education • Since the racialized nature of opportunity isolation is a spatial phenomena, maps are naturally an effective way to represent it • Maps allow us to understand volumes of data at a glance through layering • Mapping is a very powerful tool in looking at educational inequity & opportunity

3. School Composition layered over census tract data in Montclair, NJ • Maps illustrate how residential segregation can manifests in schools

4. Magnet school policy counteracts effects of neighborhood segregation

5. Opportunity Mapping for Education • Educational outcomes are a product of many inputs. • Using social science research, we can identify factors that correlate with educational performance. • Mapping looks at multiple factors which correlate with educational outcomes and social benefits, in a given neighborhood.

7. Southwest Central Ohio Southwest Ohio -- Student Disadvantage Southwest Ohio

8. Opportunity Mapping For Schools • Mapping the geographic distribution of opportunity helps us to evaluate where these opportunity mismatches exist in a community and to design interventions to move people to opportunity • Student assignment policies can be created using these indicators, drawing attendance Zones, boundaries, or through controlled choice plans.

9. Opportunity Models: Voluntary Integration Plans Using Multiple Indicators (Multi-Factor Approaches)

10. Berkeley Zones Source: Civil Rights Project at UCLA

11. Diversity Map Source: Civil Rights Project at UCLA

12. Three Zone Integration Model: Montclair, NJ GOAL: Each school has diversity of students from each zone, within 5% point deviation of K class zone baseline. K and transfer students are assigned based on parental preference and zone balance.

15. Montclair School District, NJ