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Dual Language Education and Neoliberal Reforms: When a Bilingual School Becomes a School of Choice

Fri, April 13, 4:05 to 5:35pm, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Fourth Floor, Midtown Suite

Session Type: Symposium

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We will explore with both depth and breadth what happens to urban bilingual schools when school choice reforms combine with gentrification to impact communities. Three scholars share findings from their ethnographies, carried out in the same bilingual school in an urban district in the Southwest over six years of gentrification. Two scholars offer district-wide analyses: one in the same district, sharing findings from 20 interviews of dual language (DL) teachers; the other a geospatial analysis of bilingual education and school choice in Milwaukee, WI. Together, these papers provide evidence of the destructive impacts of gentrification and the neoliberal assault on bilingual public-school communities. Yet we simultaneously offer hope, as teachers, parents, and students organize to protect them.

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