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Attendance Zones in the Suburbs
Suburban school districts may have been affluent and majority white in the 1960s and 1970s. However, in recent decades, suburban neighborhoods have become racially and economically diverse (Frey, 2014). Today, suburban schools in the U.S.’s largest metropolitan areas are predominantly home to residents of color, and many have areas of concentrated poverty (Frankenberg et al., 2019). But suburban school districts historically have had relatively little experience fostering equitable schools for diverse student populations. For example, few had the formal desegregation plans that many urban districts were under following the civil rights movement.