Inequitable Resources, Inequitable Access: Examining the Racialized U.S. Caste System Within Schools

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

We bring together a panel of experts from a variety of backgrounds including, legal scholarship, social science research, and policy leadership, to discuss the policies, systems, beliefs, and behaviors that interact to maintain a racialized caste system within our schools. Presenters will share their findings on inequitable access to and categorical inequality among public schools. We will examine how current market-based enrollment policies maintain inequitable access to one of our most valuable and consequential public goods. We will also examine the resource hoarding behaviors of parents within schools that maintain disparate resource levels. For the majority of the symposium, the panelists will participate in a discussion of the implications of this combined set of research and possible policy solutions.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 2: Legal and Judicial Issues for Equity and Access

Chair

• Valerie Sterne, The University of Texas at Austin

Papers

• Education as Property - LaToya Baldwin Clark, University of California - Los Angeles

• PTA Contributions and School Funding Inequities - Brittany C. Murray, Davidson College

• Enrollment Policy and Practices in San Antonio ISD - Patricia Baumer, San Antonio Independent School District

• School Enrollment Rights as Property Rights in Austin - Valerie Sterne, The University of Texas at Austin

Discussants

• Jennifer Candipan

• Alexandra J. Freidus, University of Connecticut