Reading questions

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Part 1: (choose one question to answer, do not answer both)

1. Refer to the reading (Orfield and Ee, "Segregating California's Future"). How do restrictions on housing contribute to school segregation? Explain in 4-5 sentences, referring to examples from the reading.

2. According to the reading (Orfield and Ee, "Segregating California's Future"), which racial/ethnic minority group in California has experienced the greatest degree of low-income or poverty segregation in the 1990s through 2010s?  Explain in 4-5 sentences.

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Part 2: (choose one question to answer, do not answer both)

1. Refer to Davis, City of Quartz, selection from Chapter 3. How were movements for school integration on the one hand, and support for Prop 13 on the other, related? Explain in 4-5 sentences.

2. Refer to Fischel, "Serrano and Prop 13". Why did California voters choose not to limit property taxes in the late-1960s and early 1970s but change their course in 1978 with Prop 13? Explain in 4-5 sentences.

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Part 3: (choose one question to answer, do not answer both)

1. Refer to the reading (Chapman, "Unintended Consequences of Prop 13"). How does Prop 13 encourage competition between cities over some retail development? Explain in 4-5 sentences.

2. Refer to the reading (Chapman, "Unintended Consequences of Prop 13"). One of the unintended consequences of Prop 13 was that it reduced educational spending. How does the author propose to reverse this trend? Explain in 4-5 sentences.