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Nicole Stelle Garnett

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Restoring Lost Connections: Land Use, Policing, And Urban Vitality, Nicole Stelle Garnett Nov 2013

Restoring Lost Connections: Land Use, Policing, And Urban Vitality, Nicole Stelle Garnett

Nicole Stelle Garnett

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Affordable Private Education And The Middle Class City, Nicole Stelle Garnett Nov 2013

Affordable Private Education And The Middle Class City, Nicole Stelle Garnett

Nicole Stelle Garnett

This Essay, which was prepared for a University of Chicago Law School’s symposium on “Rethinking the Local Government Toolkit,” argues that affordable private schools serve an important urban-development function: They partially unbundle the residential and educational decisions of families with children. Thus, state and local officials hoping to make our make central city neighborhoods attractive places to raise children should consider employing a familiar urban development tool - tax incentives - to make quality private schools more financially accessible to middle-income families. The Essay proceeds in three parts. Part I builds the case for a middle class city. Part II …