- Policy change to mandatory choice caused increase in the number of segregated schools in the district.
- While new assignment policy may have been “race neutral” its impacts were not.
- Widespread public school choice in CMS increased socioeconomic and ethnic sorting among students and amplified the differences in test-score gaps among different set of students.
- Being from a family that actively seeks out alternative to the assigned school is likely to have a positive impact on student’s academic outcomes, but attending a choice school does not have a positive impact.
- Public school choice in Charlotte was a policy failure. In addition, to failing to meet its academic goals, the choice system also failed to gain community support, especially among minorities.