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Complex Contestation: Understanding the Structures and Actors that Manage Dissent in the U.S. K-12 Political Landscape

Sun, April 12, 7:45 to 9:15am PDT (7:45 to 9:15am PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 10

Session Type: Symposium

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In this session, we present four papers that provide show how educational actors contest and manage dissent in the current sociopolitical landscape of American education. We focus on issues of how racial progress is pursued amidst a complex set of policies, institutions, and political considerations. The objects of analysis include school board members, charter school board meetings, the office of civil rights, and White parents organizing for desegregation. Collectively these papers show that as the U.S. education system evolves, the task of expressing and processing dissent is increasingly opaque to navigate. These findings have implications for how we think about the state of American democracy and what capacities our institutions have to contend with citizens and their contestation.

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