I cringed a bit when Murray was named. There have to be reams of other sociologists who provide similar evidence. But is poorly managing the optics of one's evidence enough to torpedo the article? I took the article as an exposition of how zoning boards and school boards--ostensibly local organizations--have had enormous national implications. I couldn't agree more that we need to decouple educational funding from local property values, maybe through something like federal funding. But I recall you yourself said this is too sweeping, smells too much like socialism, probably ain't ever gonna happen.Let's demonstrate our incontrovertable proof by throwing the most controversial sociologist we can find at it.
A liberal looks at the problem and says "we need to figure out a way to separate schools from wealth." A conservative looks at the problem and says "we need to figure out a way to let entrepreneurs build skyscrapers in neighborhoods."