even college. The program participants' children were initially below the academic level of their classmates, but because only a few families were moved to each suburbs, the suburban teachers could take time with each new child and tutor each child individually until the children were at the same level as their classmates. The sociologist James Rosenbaum who studied the Gautreaux project testified before the US Congress on the success of the program, and it has become a model for similar programs in 33 metropolitan areas and inspired the national Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program. Some housing departments misinterpreted the results of the Gautreaux project, and used it as justification for emptying and demolishing public housing, as a result of which thousands of public housing residents at a time moved to the same suburbs and overwhelmed the suburbs' resources with urban problems. Gautreaux intentionally moved only a few public housing residents to each suburb. External links "Polikoff Combats 'Residential Apartheid' With Gautreaux", Chicago Reporter, March 1978 Leonard Rubinowitz and James Rosenbaum, Crossing the Class and Color Lines Testimony of Nathaniel R. Jones Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts on S. 489 the Review of Federal Court Decrees, July 19, 2005 Alexander Polikoff, Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto (Northwestern University Press 2006) Housing organizations in the United States Segregation