Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance
By Kristen L. Buras.
Description
Charter schools have been promoted as an equitable and innovative solution to the problems plaguing urban schools. Advocates claim that charter schools benefit working-class students of color by offering them access to a "portfolio" of school choices. In Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space, Kristen Buras presents a very different account. Her case study of New Orleans―where veteran teachers were fired en masse and the nation's first all-charter school district was developed―shows that such reform is less about the needs of racially oppressed communities and more about the ...
ISBN(s)
0415814626, 9780415814621
