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Though gentrification is understood in terms of its impacts in driving out low-income residents, impacts to education are not so well understood and have been largely ignored.\u00a0 File photo by Luke Thomas, 2006.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Sean Lords<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

November 27, 2013<\/p>\n

Rapid gentrification has been affecting the lives of all of San Francisco\u2019s residents, so why has the relationship between the city\u2019s changing population and public education been largely ignored? Gentrification can lead to schools becoming either more or less diverse, and has been used as a tool to bring \u201csocioeconomic balance\u201d to schools.\u00a0 The introduction of students from more privileged socioeconomic backgrounds can make standardized test scores appear higher for the school as a whole, thus distracting from the real issues that cause students to struggle, especially poverty.<\/p>\n

In other gentrified cities including New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago, population shifts resulting from gentrification have led to school closures and the re-segregation of schools as wealthy families push minorities and the poor out of their neighborhood schools. In Washington D.C. it has sometimes led to organic desegregation as wealthier white students enroll in previously disinvested schools.\u00a0 Though often credited to corporate-style school reform, the influx of wealthier, higher-performing students skew test score statistics, making it appear as though the schools themselves are changing (and thus \u201cimproving\u201d) as opposed to the school population. \u00a0This does little to address the correlation between economic background and educational opportunities. In this way, gentrifying schools become yet another smoke screen that distracts the public\u2019s attention from the root problem of pervasive economic inequality.<\/p>\n

Gentrification is also noticeably affecting Oakland\u2019s schools<\/a>. At one point known as the \u201ccharter capital of California,\u201d Oakland spent the last ten years implementing educational reform and has had little to show for it. Now, middle class families are moving to the area and working with organizations such as the Great Oakland Public Schools Learning Center, or GO, on innovative solutions to provide equitable, quality public education to Oakland\u2019s students. According to GO, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is California\u2019s \u201cmost improved urban school district,\u201d with some caveats\u2014\u201c A majority of Oakland\u2019s public schools struggle to equitably and excellently serve students, particularly students of color and those from socioeconomically disadvantaged or language minority backgrounds.\u201d This suggests that the measurable improvements could be the result of shifting demographics as much as they are a result of the advocacy initiated by Oakland\u2019s middle class population.<\/p>\n

The cause of OUSD\u2019s improvements is difficult to track given that while school districts keeps tabs on both the socioeconomic status (SES) and the racial\/ethnic breakdown of their student populations, it does not track the intersection between the two even as the correlation may seem obvious\u2014as it has gentrified over the last twenty years, San Francisco has seen its African American population reduce by 35.7%, according to the US Census Bureau. \u00a0Additionally, achievement is more likely to be tracked by race and ethnicity as opposed to SES. In San Francisco, the SFUSD reports that they have narrowed the achievement gap between African-American and Latino students and their peers by 10-13% over five years without accounting for the change in student enrollment over that period. Even though we know that between 2008 and 2012 the SFUSD\u2019s African-American population dropped by two percent, we know little about that two percent beyond their racial\/ethnic background.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the impact of gentrification on San Francisco\u2019s schools has been ignored because according to mainstream metrics they haven\u2019t been failing, while Oakland\u2019s have. SFUSD has done better than the seven largest California school districts on the California Standards Tests (CST) for the past six years. And while the Thomas B. Fordham foundation states that San Francisco lacks \u201curgency\u201d for the corporate-style reform it advocates, the SFUSD itself has received a $2.7 million dollar investment from Salesforce.com\u2014another trickle-down benefit of San Francisco\u2019s tech-fueled gentrification.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it\u2019s difficult to tell how gentrification has affected schools in San Francisco or any other city beyond anecdotal evidence.\u00a0 Collecting statistics can be problematic as it is\u2014California\u2019s enthusiasm for the common core and standards-based report cards may give us numbers, but these numbers take student achievement out of the extracurricular contexts that influence it. Our experiences of diversity both inside and outside of the classroom effect education\u2014as opposed to training associated with achievement on standardized tests\u2014so it\u2019s time that we start telling stories and paying attention to how gentrification is effecting San Francisco\u2019s youngest residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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