The intention is kind, but there's no better way to force _every_ remaining parent who can afford it to send their kids to private schools (or move to the 'burbs) and increase the inequality even more.
There was an interesting podcast series that took on the disparity issue in some detail when a neighborhood public school in NYC got effectively taken over by parents who could no longer find slots for their kids in the "good" schools: "Nice White Parents" [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...].
It's an uncomfortable thing to approach no matter how you look at it. But the solution, if there even is one, is for parents to take a much deeper role in how schools are operated and funded. For the wealthy, that will simply mean private school, period. For those that can't do that but who still care about their kids education, it going to mean A LOT MORE involvement in public schools.
There was an interesting podcast series that took on the disparity issue in some detail when a neighborhood public school in NYC got effectively taken over by parents who could no longer find slots for their kids in the "good" schools: "Nice White Parents" [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...].
It's an uncomfortable thing to approach no matter how you look at it. But the solution, if there even is one, is for parents to take a much deeper role in how schools are operated and funded. For the wealthy, that will simply mean private school, period. For those that can't do that but who still care about their kids education, it going to mean A LOT MORE involvement in public schools.