“…Still, changing attendance boundaries within districts continues to be a highly contentious topic, especially when issues of diversity are also at stake (McMillan, 2018). Parents may fear that rezoning students will increase travel times through longer "busing" (Frankenberg & Jacobsen, 2011), reduce quality of education (Zhang, 2008)-which they often define vis-á-vis test scores (Abdulkadiroglu et al, 2019) and class sizes (Gilraine et al, 2018)-produce unsafe school environments (The Baltimore Sun Staff, 2019), drop property values (Black, 1999;Bridges, 2016;Kane et al, 2005), fragment communities (Bridges, 2016;Staff, 2019), and require a number of other sacrifices.…”