Education Reform to Keep Wealthy Families in Cities
A new report from the American Enterprise Institute calls for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a new scholarship program to encourage middle-class families to live in lower-income urban areas and send their children to schools in those communities. CPR Scholarships: Using Private School Choice to Attack Concentrated Poverty, Crime, and Unemployment argues that Community Protection and Revitalization scholarships would decrease concentrated poverty and direct valuable tax revenue to urban public schools, improving economic conditions and school quality in poor urban communities. The policy would run counter to current HUD programs that encourage poor families to move into relatively wealthy suburbs, according to the report.