Excluded by choice : urban students with disabilities in the education marketplace / Federico R. Waitoller ; foreword by Alfredo J. Artiles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waitoller, Federico R., author.

Series:

Disability, culture, and equity series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City children--Education--United States.

City children.

Children with disabilities--Education--United States.

Children with disabilities.

Children with disabilities--Education.

School choice--Social aspects.

School choice.

City children--Education.

United States.

African American children--Education.

African American children.

Hispanic American children--Education.

Hispanic American children.

Charter schools--United States.

Charter schools.

School choice--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Urban--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Urban.

Education, Urban--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xiv, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2020]

Summary:

"It is the first book examining the experiences of Black and Latinx students with disabilities and their families with market-driven educational policies. It offers a unique theoretical contribution examining the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies. It uses powerful and emotional narratives that unveil the collateral damages of market-driven policies. It explains how Black and Latinx parents of students with disabilities experience and resist pushout practices in charter schools. It identifies the consequences of pushout practices in charter schools that are more severe that forcing parents to move to another school"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Excluded by Choice: Entering the Great American Education Debate p. 5

Is This a Book Against Charter Schools? p. 11

A Book About Disability, Race, Education, and Urban Space: Outline of the Book p. 13

2 Choosing Schools? Stories of Desperation p. 18

Searching for Safety p. 21

Special Education Services: Austerity Measures and Segregation p. 34

Academics p. 42

Perceiving the Disinvestment and Destabilization of Public Schools p. 45

3 Choosing Schools? Stories of Optimistic Attachments p. 53

Parents' Perceptions of Safety in Charter Schools p. 59

Perceptions of Charter Schools as Academically Rigorous p. 62

The Perception of Charter Schools as Well-Resourced Educational Spaces p. 64

4 The Cruelty of Optimistic Attachments: Pushout Practices in Charter Schools p. 69

Discipline and Academic Practices p. 71

Delay and Deny Special Education Services p. 78

Lack of Trained Teachers p. 84

Suggesting to "Choose" Another School: "Think of What Is Best for Your Child" p. 87

Aren't These Practices a Violation of Federal Law? p. 91

5 Sustaining Hopes of "Inclusion": Fight or Flee p. 94

Complaining to the Charter Administration: "Becoming a Pest" p. 95

The Role of the School District p. 98

Working with Lawyers p. 103

6 The Consequences p. 112

Being Pushed Out p. 112

Deteriorating Students' Well-Being p. 116

Impact on Parents' Well-Being p. 127

7 Fantasies of Inclusion in the Education Market Space: Theoretical Contributions p. 129

Parental Choice in the Education MarketSpace p. 129

Fantasies of Inclusion p. 138

The New Racial Inequities in Special Education p. 146

8 Toward an Intersectional and Radical Inclusive Education: Recommendations p. 150

Intersectional Inclusive Education Principles p. 151

Recommendations for Practice p. 154

Recommendations for Policy p. 160

Recommendations for Research p. 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Waitoller, Federico R. Excluded by choice.

ISBN:

9780807764008

0807764000

9780807764015

0807764019

OCLC:

1139889387