Abriendo el Sistema Through Bilingual Education and School Choice in Milwaukee

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 5
  In Poster Session: Bilingual Education Research Poster Session: Research and Implications for Bilingual and Multilingual Students

Abstract

This qualitative historical inquiry combines oral history interviews, archival research, and meta-ethnography (Urrieta & Noblit, 2018) to explore some interconnections and tensions between bilingual education and school choice. While these fields are often considered separately, this study holds them in conversation to illustrate possibilities and challenges of researcher-stakeholder collaboration. First, I detail the interplay between the community rooting of the movement to launch developmental bilingual bicultural education in Milwaukee and its trans-scalar connections. Next, I review additional collaborations that spawned the oldest urban school voucher program in the US. I conclude by discussing the implications of these histories for promoting the public good, especially as this same public has traditionally been fraught with white supremacist exclusion (Aggarwal, 2018).

Author

• Andrew Hilton Hurie, Carroll University