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Minnesota’s new ‘white flight’: school open-enrollment program

By Cynthia Boyd | 01/11/13

A program intended to integrate schools and balance academic opportunities for children of all races has resulted in increased racial segregation.

Suburbs of a certain age: the post-racial frontier
Cityscape

Suburbs of a certain age: the post-racial frontier

By Marlys Harris | 11/16/12

Officials from older  suburbs grapple with housing and education challenges.

How cities benefit from desegregated schools
Cityscape

How cities benefit from desegregated schools

By Marlys Harris | 09/25/12

Compared to 25 other metro areas, the Twin Cities looks like a mecca of tolerance and diversity.

Affordable housing in the Central Corridor: How much is too much?
Cityscape

Affordable housing in the Central Corridor: How much is too much?

By Marlys Harris | 09/19/12

The downside of a lot of low-income housing in one area.

Charges that Obama wants to ‘burn' the suburbs aren't true
Cityscape

Charges that Obama wants to 'burn' the suburbs aren't true

By Marlys Harris | 08/17/12

Author Stanley Kurtz's argument, says U institute’s Myron Orfield, is "baloney." I’d say that, too, but I don't want to insult baloney.

Twin Cities suburbs rapidly becoming more diverse
Cityscape

Twin Cities suburbs rapidly becoming more diverse

By Marlys Harris | 07/20/12

New study from the University of Minnesota documents population changes in metro area.

Doughnut development in big urban areas is waning
Cityscape

Doughnut development in big urban areas is waning

By Marlys Harris | 05/14/12

The metro-area trend of a fat, sweet ring of rich suburbs encircling an almost empty inner core is reversing.

House GOP floats plan to restructure regional planning
Cityscape

House GOP floats plan to restructure regional planning

By Steven Dornfeld | 03/19/12

Proposal would create multiple boards and commissions to do the work now performed by the Met Council.

Map showing segregation in charter schools
Community Sketchbook

Twin Cities charter schools fail to deliver promised gains, study claims

By Cynthia Boyd | 02/24/12

Report says Twin Cities charter schools underperforming comparable traditional schools.

Dr. Brenda Cassellius
Learning Curve

Integration task force forwarding results to Cassellius

By Beth Hawkins | 02/15/12

Recommendations carry the endorsement of Myron Orfield, a relentless integration advocate, and Bob Erickson, a fiscal conservative.