Boston's high overall Child Opportunity Score obscures racial inequities

From Axios Boston

A new analysis illustrates how metro areas like Boston can rank so highly in education while significant childhood opportunity gaps remain within the region. How it works: The Child Opportunity Index 3.0, from the DiversityDataKids.org project at Brandeis University, seeks to quantify opportunity based on factors tied to where a child lives, including education, health, environment and socioeconomics. Based on those factors, the report assigns a score of 1–100 to each census tract. Boston has one of the highest overall "Opportunity Scores" (86) among the 100 country's biggest metros, joining Bridgeport, Connecticut (88) and San Jose, California (87), based on data from 2021. Yes, but: There are large scoring gaps within the Boston metro, reflecting internal inequities.