Houston Chronicle, August 2, 2016: School closures hit black, poor students the hardest

"Now, a new report from the Kinder Institute's Houston Education Research Consortium, a partnership between the district and Rice University, confirms that students displaced by a school closure rarely end up benefiting academically from their new school. An analysis of 27 school closures from 2003 to 2010 in HISD found that school closures disproportionately displaced black and poor students, and 'while students generally transferred to slightly more advantaged and academically higher-performing schools, few transferred to HISD's highest-performing schools.'"