Chicago Public Schools today is unveiling new criteria for admissions to the city’s magnet and selective enrollment schools. Socio-economic factors will replace race as a criteria for admissions to the coveted schools.

Related: Education Reporter Linda Lutton talks with host Melba Lara about the new criteria.

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CPS will now consider the median income of the area where a child lives, parents’ level of education and marital status, home ownership rates, and the percentage of homes in the child’s neighborhood where a language other than English is spoken.

The district will look at characteristics of the neighborhood students come from rather than individual student characteristics.

The change was brought about by a judge’s decision in September to end the district’s 29-year-old school desegregation order.