Across the country cities are experiencing rapid increases in gentrification: the influx of middle-class, often white residents, into cities with large minority populations. In some gentrifying cities, significant numbers of white middle-class residents are enrolling their children in city public schools, reversing a long standing trend of white flight out of city schools. Local officials value the renewed interest in public schools by these residents because it represents an opportunity to keep them, and their tax dollars, from fleeing to the suburbs once they have school aged children. This Article chronicles the ways in which local officials in gentrifying cities are implementing public school reforms with the specific intent of making their schools an attractive option for white middle-class residents. It argues that the reforms disproportionately harm poor and minority students by displacing them from their neighborhood public schools and limiting the number of quality schools available to them. While advocates for poor and minority families are bringing legal challenges to the reforms, legal challenges are (and will continue to be) unsuccessful because courts lack the doctrinal support in the case law necessary to find that the reforms constitute an actionable form of discrimination. Gentrifier families and poor minority families have a shared in interest in improving urban public schools. However, that shared interest is being distorted by the heavy focus on reforms that favor gentrifiers. The Article analyzes the ways in which advocates can capitalize on this shared interest through the lens of Professor Derek Bell’s Interest Convergence Theory. It concludes by arguing that capitalizing on the shared interest to enact certain legislation, rather than litigation, is a more effective way to improve urban public schools for all urban school students.