How Dallas is reversing decades of white flight from its school system

School districts sees success with Transformation Schools' that offer a socioeconomically mixed student body

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When Lauren McKinnon heard a new public elementary school was opening close to her home in Dallas, it was good news; but when she learned the school would offer an all-girls education format with a focus on Stem, she was even more excited, knowing inequities often exist for girls - like her daughters - in math and science.