Orfield Comments on Texas School Dist. Petition

Some residents of Northgate Forest, an upscale subdivision in Texas, are trying to take advantage of a little-known provision in state law to get out of the increasingly diverse Spring school district and join the more-affluent and higher-performing Klein Independent School District. "It could be a relatively minor case in the sense of the number of kids, but the structural impacts of a decision like that are very large," said Myron Orfield, professor and director of the Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School.