The author of A Fine Line: How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools, Tim DeRoche, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss his new book and how public-school attendance zones may violate a federal civil rights law, the Equal Educational Opportunity Act of 1974.

DeRoche’s article for Education Next, “Public-School Attendance Zones Violate a Civil Rights Law,” is available now.

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