Voluntary desegregation works by families choosing schools on cost-benefit grounds

Evidence

Most desegregation is attained by voluntary white transfers into well equipped magnet schools in minority areas or by minority enrollment in white school either by attending a magnet school or by the majority-to-minority transfers (Rossell, 42). Parents weigh the costs and benefits when determining in which school they want to enroll their children. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 38

Categorization

• XREF: The rational-actor framing here pairs with the mandatory plan’s use of a ‘less desirable’ fallback as leverage.