Fig. 1

Displays racial integration progress in Morris County for both the Within (redrawing attendance zones alone) and Between-District (redrawing attendance zones and school district boundaries) models. The x-axis represents draws (steps) of the MCMC algorithm described in Methods, the y-axis displays the dissimilarity index for Black and Hispanic students at each step, and the different colored circles and lines represent independent algorithmic chains. The results show that the Between-District model consistently outperforms the Within-District model across all ten independent chains, indicating that redrawing school district lines would be a promising policy for reducing school segregation.