Service Description: Is access to high-quality education in Texas equal among all racial groups? Black and Hispanic students generally have lower test scores and higher drop-out rates than White and Asian children. Many studies have identified several factors that have created this educational divide like income level, but these focus mostly on individual explanations without accounting for institutional inequalities like access to high-quality schools and school funding. This project seeks to explore whether areas with higher concentrations of racial minorities have the same quality of schools as White-majority areas. I hypothesize that areas with 1.) a lower percentage of non-Hispanic Whites, 2.) lower median incomes, and 3.) lower housing prices will have more failing schools, defined as receiving an overall “D” or “F” accountability rating by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). I include housing value and income as control variables since the bulk of Texas public school funding comes from property taxes, so areas with depressed housing values tend to have less money to spend on students, leading to worse educational outcomes.
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