The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), launched in 2010, provides funds for public housing authorities and other local entities and aims to redevelop distressed housing projects and transform the neighborhoods surrounding them into "mixed-income, high opportunity communities." From its inception, the CNI has included a strong focus on school improvement and coordination, although the responses of most applicants have been less than robust. Despite the CNI's emphasis on transforming neighborhoods of poverty into mixed income neighborhoods, this economic integration goal has rarely been applied to the local public school--indeed, with a few notable exceptions the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and CNI applicants have generally assumed that the local school will remain a high poverty school. This policy brief reviews the goals of the CNI and the track record of CNI school improvement efforts, as reflected in successful applications for CNI funding. The authors suggest that HUD and the Department of Education have missed a major opportunity for cross-agency collaboration, which could be achieved by linking magnet school funding and school integration planning grants with Choice Neighborhoods implementation and planning grants.