Magnet schools keep white enrollment by being more attractive than their alternatives

Evidence

These schools have been found to be very effective in achieving racial balance because the alternative to a magnet school is a less desirable desegregated school. While white flight is still seen in the non-magnet schools, like when this program was implemented in Boston, the magnet schools are very desirable and therefore successful at maintaining their white student enrollment. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 37

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the voluntary-plan paragraph’s cost-benefit logic: desirability functions as the mechanism holding integration together.
• SEED: Essay angle: desegregation succeeds when integrated schools are the sought-after option, not the imposed default.