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In major cities, school choice has become nearly universal with growing numbers of students commuting outside of their neighborhoods to district, charter, and private schools of choice (National Center for Education Statistics, 2021a) . School choice is also becoming prevalent outside of cities. Rural and suburban areas have experienced post-pandemic expansions of school choice through micro-schools, virtual schools, and other non-traditional school models (Hamlin et al. , 2023) . These developments raise questions about how school leaders can support school integration as families arepresented with expanding school options. On the one hand, emerging forms of school choice could help to strengthen voluntary integration by allowing families to choose schools outside of segregated neighborhoods, but new forms of choice could also amplify segregation if families of similar racial and socioeconomic backgrounds congregate in the same schools. Previous research paints a complicated picture offering evidence that school choice can unleash both segregating and desegregating forces (McCallum et al. , 2019; Monarrez et al. , 2022) .  \nIn this Equity by Design brief, I describe new approaches to school choice and consider how they might influence school integration. Transformations brought about  \nby emerging models of school choice could shape the future of school integration. As such, developing an understanding of emerging models of school choice is important to the Equity Assistance Center Program’s mission of school integration and equal educational opportunities for all students.  \nVoluntary Integration through School Choice  \nFollowing the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the Supreme Court directed schools to desegregate “with all deliberate speed” (Brown v. Board of Education, 1955) . One initial response to this decision was to seek racial balance by busing Black students to schools in predominantly white neighborhoods (Rivkin & Welch, 2006) . Race-conscious busing programs, especially those there were court-ordered, often had political repercussions and were met with resistance from both Black and white families (Billings et al. , 2014) . While research finds some long-term benefits for students who directly participated in busing programs (Johnson, 2011), scholars have maintained that raceconscious busing was detrimental to schools and teachers in Black communities (Thompson, 2022) . Few race-conscious busing programs remain today (Billings et al. , 2014) . The nation’s largest operational program, METCO, is a voluntary one in Boston that buses predominantly Black and Latine students from the city to affluent schools in the surrounding suburbs (Brooks, 2022) .  \n- 1-  \nIn the 1960s, policymakers began turning to school choice as a way of promoting voluntary integration. The main rationale for this change was that the prevailing system of school assignment based on a student’s residence invariably led to segregated schools because neighborhoods themselves were segregated (McCallum et al. , 2019) . Proponents felt that school choice policies would weaken the link between segregated neighborhoods and schools by encouraging families to choose schools beyond their neighborhoods (Hamlin et al. , 2023) . This form of school choice was the original plan for magnet schools, which first opened in the state of Washington in the late 1960s (George et al, 2023) . Typically located in predominantly Black neighborhoods, magnet schools were established to be academically excepti","cbCaifbMXckdSitb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifbMXckdSitb","pdf",4316965,22,"English","# Integration and School Choice: Challenges and Opportunities for School Leaders\n## Voluntary Integration through School Choice\n## Magnet Schools and Integration Approaches","[{\"question\":\"How has school choice changed integration challenges for school leaders?\",\"answer\":\"School choice has grown substantially, with families commuting to district, charter, and private options. This raises how leaders can promote integration while preventing new patterns of segregation.\"},{\"question\":\"What is voluntary integration through school choice?\",\"answer\":\"After Brown v. 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