Interrogating Consequential Education Research: Parents of Color as Choice-Makers in Their Children's Education

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Four
  In Roundtable Session: Telling Our Stories: Critical Examination of School, Family, Community Experiences, and Student Development (Table 12)

Abstract

School choice has been fraught with challenges, and choices, including subjugation for specific races and populations. Existing literature provides little research on the decisions that women of color make in choosing charter schools for their children’s education. Nationally, charter school growth has tripled in the past 12 years, currently serving more than 3.1 million students in 7,000 charter schools in more than 200 school districts. Texas schools serve larger proportions of low-income students of color than did public schools statewide. This has led to an increase in segregation of charter schools. Eight women of color were interviewed; four Latinas and four African Americans discussed their paths of interrogating academic educational choices through personal guided research based on personal choices.

Author

• Donna M. Druery, Texas A&M University
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