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Gentrification, Scarcity, and Closures: Public Engagement and Collective Action in Changing Urban Schools and Neighborhoods

Sun, April 15, 2:45 to 4:15pm, Park Central Hotel New York, Floor: Mezzanine Level, Manhattan B Room

Session Type: Symposium

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This session will examine implications for public engagement in the new education landscape, a context that includes the rise of market approaches to the delivery of education and public resource scarcity, with a focus on urban schools. Our goal is to take a cross-disciplinary approach to the role that organizations and organizing play in these contexts, including perspectives from urban planning and design, education, and political science. While these research projects share a focus on Philadelphia, the panelists represent a variety of institutions. By presenting a series of empirical and conceptual pieces, we will show how local parent and community organizations and organizing solutions meet the problems of gentrification, lack of funding, and school closures.

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