Public School Choice: Implications for African American Students

Peterkin, Robert S.; Jackson, Janice E.

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“…With the adoption of school choice policies, control has shifted, becoming more centralized at the state and federal levels. School choice options come in many forms: controlled desegregation programs, magnet schools, charter schools, voucher programs, homeschooling, and according to some, moving one's residence to a new school district (Cooper, 2005;Goyette, 2008;Pattillo, 2015;Pattillo et al, 2014). For this discussion, school choice will focus on charter school expansion.…”

Section: Whiteness As Propertymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…School choice initiatives assume parents and students have real options for schooling. School choice ideally empowers parents to choose better educational options for their children, but the reality is that there are immense barriers to choosing successfully (Cooper, 2005;Goyette, 2008;Jennings, 2010;Pattillo et al, 2014). The distance parents experience from decision-makers is apparent in the burdens they face when navigating the school choice process, therefore their choice is only one of a myriad of actions needed for successful enrollment.…”

Section: The Gates Foundationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The distance parents experience from decision-makers is apparent in the burdens they face when navigating the school choice process, therefore their choice is only one of a myriad of actions needed for successful enrollment. Parents have trouble navigating the choice process to find information, visit schools and apply; all this compounds the stress of already disadvantaged Black and brown parents and their communities (Cooper, 2005;Pattillo, 2015). Ideally, choice allows parents to "vote with their feet" but the amount of effort and the risk of undesirable outcomes shows that choice is a weak form of empowerment, due to the many constraints on parents in the process of choosing.…”

Section: The Gates Foundationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…parents and students), once stuck in failing education systems, the chance to choose and attend better schools. Therefore, choice is marketed as a solution to the chronic failure of public schools to adequately educate impoverished students and students of color (Cooper, 2005;Goyette, 2008). On the surface, these terms sound as if choice is essential to our democracy and equitable distribution of resources, but the experiences of students and families, particularly in communities of color, reveal choice to be more like chance (see parental burdens; Makris, 2018;Pattillo, 2015;Pattillo et al, 2014).…”

Section: The Gates Foundationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Philanthropy as whiteness: toward racially just philanthropic practices

Scott,

Rodriguez Leach

2024

EDI

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PurposeExploring how racism continues to persist throughout public and nonprofit organizations is central to undoing persistent society-wide injustices in the United States and around the globe. The authors provide two cases for identifying and understanding the ways in which philanthropy’s whiteness does harm to K–12 students and communities of color.Design/methodology/approachIn this article, the authors draw on critical race theory and critical whiteness studies, specifically Cheryl Harris' work to expose the whiteness of philanthropy, not as a racial identity, but in the way that philanthropy is performed. The authors characterize one of the property functions of whiteness, the right to exclude, as working through two mechanisms: neoliberal exclusion and overt exclusion. Drawing on this construction of the right to exclude, the authors present two cases: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the City Fund.FindingsWhether intentional or not, the Gates Foundation and the City Fund each exclude communities of color in several ways: from changes to schools and districts, parents' experiences navigating school enrollment due to these changes, to academic assessments and political lobbying.Originality/valueThese cases provide a way for researchers and practitioners to see how organizations in real time reify the extant racial hierarchy so as to disrupt such organizational processes and practices for racial justice.

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Section: Whiteness As Propertymentioning

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Section: The Gates Foundationmentioning

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Section: The Gates Foundationmentioning

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Section: The Gates Foundationmentioning

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Scott,

Rodriguez Leach

2024

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“…The magnet-schools program was designed to promote school choice as an alternative to the use of busing to achieve school integration. Funds for this program grew from $70 million to $113 million under President George Bush, for a total of $739 million by 1992 (Peterkin & Jackson, 1994). Before the magnet-school programs, the Emergency School Assistance Act provided funds for alternative measures to racially integrate schools.…”

Section: Integrated Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Brown and the politics of equality

Brown

1994

Urban Rev

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Forty years after Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision declaring de jure segregated schools unconstitutional, we are still seeking the full implementation of that decree. Most Americans accepted limited implementation of Brown, and the degree of acceptance is split along racial lines. Racial dialogue has changed. White Americans, who control the desegregation process, develop integration plans to their advantage. School integration was not implemented until after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and peaked in 1972. Today, school integration is declining due to a backlash, changing demographics, and declining resources. However, Brown was a success because it rid the country of legalized state segregation by race in education and in other areas of public policy. The Court could merge the equality standards of Plessy v. Ferguson and the integration standards of Brown to give us quality integrated education.In Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that separate but equal schooling was unconstitutional. What were the politics of Brown, and what did African-American plaintiffs seek in that decision?In Brown, African-Americans sought equal education opportunities by requesting an upgrading of black schools and the integration of white schools. African-Americans knew that as a political minority they would lose control over the instruction and the socialization of black children. The black community would lose educators as role models and a source of income and would suffer the psychological stigma of having black schools associated with inferior education. Blacks also saw Brown as a mechanism for attacking other forms of legalized segregation.

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Durability and debate: How state-level policy actors frame school choice

Daramola

Allbright

Marsh

et al. 2023

EPAA

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School choice policies have become a prominent feature of K-12 education in recent decades, reflecting the broader institutionalization of market-based political ideology in education. In this qualitative multiple case study, we draw on framing theory and interviews with 57 state-level education policy actors to explore the nature of the continued debate over school choice in five U.S. states. We find five patterns of framing choice as beneficial, centering around five purported goals–quality, equity, liberty, plurality, and innovation–along with critiques of these frames. Our findings illustrate that despite the contested nature of these policies, the broad appeal and flexibility of “choice”’ helps to explain its durability.

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Public School Choice: Implications for African American Students

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Philanthropy as whiteness: toward racially just philanthropic practices

Philanthropy as whiteness: toward racially just philanthropic practices

Brown and the politics of equality

Durability and debate: How state-level policy actors frame school choice

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