[lbo-talk] Rich prefer public schools?

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Public schools that have mostly rich kids attending are different from normal public schools. Parents get together and donate money for curriculum enrichment, and the kids' chances of getting into elite schools can actually increase due to their going to a public school.

Joanna

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"We have never had the numbers that we have," said Elizabeth Phillips, the 
principal at Public School 321 in Park Slope for 13 years. "But we've never 
had so many affluent foreign families in the neighborhood, either."

A similar divergence exists in other major cities, the census data show. For 
example, in Los Angeles and Chicago, roughly 60 percent of foreign-born 
couples with at least $150,000 in household income send their children only 
to public schools, a rate far higher than that of native-born parents.

In the United States over all, there is almost no difference between the two 
groups, apparently because wealthy people outside of urban areas are much 
more likely to show allegiance to the public schools. Nationally, 73 percent 
of native-born couples and 76 percent of foreign-born couples send their 
children only to public school, according to the data, which was analyzed by 
Andrew A. Beveridge and Susan Weber-Stoger, demographers at Queens College.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/nyregion/foreign-parents-in-new-york-prefer-public-schools.html?google_editors_picks=true

I thought this was an useful factoid to put somewhere in the public school 
reframing project.

CG

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