Parental School Choice: Comparing the Perspectives of Black Parents in South Africa and Latina/o Parents in San Antonio, Texas

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Abstract

This paper compares the perspectives regarding school choice practices of Black parents’ in
South Africa with those of Latino/a parents’ San Antonio, Texas. In South Africa, after 4 decades of segregation in education, new laws allowed desegregation of schools and a large number of Black parents participated in school choice. In the US, school choice is also connected to attempts to eradicate racial segregation of schools. This paper examines the perspectives of
two groups of parents, in South Africa and San Antonio, Texas, probing their reasoning for the
choices they make about their children’s education.

Author

• Bekisizwe S. Ndimande, The University of Texas - San Antonio