The political economy of market-based educational policies: Race and reform in urban school districts, 1915 to 2016

J Scott, JJ Holme - Review of Research in Education, 2016‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The authors situate the emergence and effects of contemporary market-based reforms within
a framework of urban political economy that centers on racial inequality. They discuss how …

Closed schools, open markets: A hot spot spatial analysis of school closures and charter openings in Detroit

TL Green, JD Sánchez, AJ Castro - AERA Open, 2019‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study is to use geographic information systems to map the spatial
distribution of traditional public school closures and the opening of charter schools in Detroit …

The color of neoliberal reform: A critical race policy analysis of school district takeovers in Michigan

J Wright, RW Whitaker, M Khalifa… - Urban …, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This critical case study analyzes Michigan's implementation of Public Act 4 (PA4), also
known as the emergency management (EM) takeover law. PA4 grants the state control of …

The plantation “all charter” model and the long durée of resistance for black public high schools in New Orleans

EK Jeffers, AD Dixson - Educational Evaluation and Policy …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Education research has often overlooked how the long durée of resistance for Black
education has shaped current educational policy. We complicate notions of Black public …

Charter competition and district finances: Evidence from California

P Bruno - Journal of Education Finance, 2019‏ - JSTOR
Charter schools enroll a growing share of public school students, leading to concerns about
the financial implications of charter schools for traditional public schools (TPSs). Using …

Estimating the effects of a large for-profit charter school operator

S Dynarski, D Hubbard, B Jacob, S Robles - 2018‏ - nber.org
In this paper, we leverage randomized admissions lotteries to estimate the impact of
attending a National Heritage Academy (NHA) charter school. NHA is the fourth largest for …

Reframing community (dis) engagement: The discursive connection between undemocratic policy enactment, minoritized communities and resistance

JS Wright, T Kim - Journal of Education Policy, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
While studies have examined leadership efforts to improve community engagement, less is
known about how deeply rooted structured discourses, systems, and practices influence …

Efforts to dismantle traditional public schools: Literacy consequences for students

J Lewis‐Spector - The Reading Teacher, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
America's traditional public schools are facing challenges that may ultimately lead to their
extinction. From their beginnings, some criticized them for being secular schools when much …

Funding school choice: Implications for American education

LS Kaplan, WA Owings - Journal of Education Finance, 2018‏ - JSTOR
Secretary of Education, Betsy De Vos wants to privatize American education using charter
schools, vouchers, tax credit scholarships, education savings accounts, and portable federal …

Public Good Through Charter Schools?

P Hackney - Ga. St. UL Rev., 2022‏ - HeinOnline
Should nonprofit charter schools be considered" charitable" under § 501 (c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code and be entitled to the benefits that go with that designation (income tax …