The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing Public Ed w/ Dr. Jennifer Jennings
We don’t usually talk about public education as a system for rationing scarce resources, but that’s exactly what it does. There are only so many seats in “good schools,” and someone has to decide who goes where: the state, a lottery, a neighborhood boundary, or families themselves. Reformers rightly attack the unjust ways districts and zip codes ration access, and school choice promises a way out. But as Dr. Jennifer Jennings argues in her new book, school choice changes how rationing works, not whether it exists.
In this episode, we talk with Jennings about The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Public Education. We get into why policy debates fixate on who gets the seats and skip the bigger question of why good schools are scarce in the first place. Once we accept scarcity as permanent, the strategizing, self-sorting, and exhaustion that follow start to feel inevitable. So does the inequality that sincere reforms keep reproducing.
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