AERA Annual Meeting: School Shuttering and the Fight for Black Public Educational Access, Improvement, and Protection

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School Shuttering and the Fight for Black Public Educational Access, Improvement, and Protection

Fri, April 12, 3:05 to 4:35pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 113A

Session Type: Symposium

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The shuttering (permanent closure) of predominantly Black schools in urban and rural locales across the U.S. has been justified by policymakers’ claims of chronic low academic performance, fiscal and administrative mismanagement, and/or population loss. Such dominant institutional logics often evade realities of structural disinvestment, political disenfranchisement, and other forms of systemic racism that have positioned these districts to fail. In this symposium, authors share studies of school shuttering by marshaling historical and empirical data and grounding analyses in critical racial frameworks as they address: the political apparatus contributing to school shuttering decisions, how shuttering affects Black communities, modes of Black communities’ political resistance, and racially just alternatives for protecting and improving public schools at risk of being shuttered.

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Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 7: Social Context and Structural Inequalities

School Shuttering and the Fight for Black Public Educational Access, Improvement, and Protection

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