Designed to fail : why racial equity in school funding is so hard to achieve / Roseann Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Roseann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public schools--United States--Finance.

Public schools.

Discrimination in education--United States.

Discrimination in education.

Racial justice in education.

Public schools--Finance.

United States.

Physical Description:

197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Why racial equity in school funding is so hard to achieve

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

"For people who care about urban school districts like Philadelphia, addressing the challenges that these schools face often boils down to the need for more money. But why are urban districts that serve Black and Brown students still so perennially underfunded compared to majority-white ones? Why is racial equity in school funding so hard to achieve? In Designed to Fail, Roseann Liu provides an inside look at the Pennsylvania state legislature and campaigns for fair funding to show how those responsible for the distribution of school funding work to maintain the privileges of majority-white school districts. Liu analyzes how colorblind policies, political structures, and the maintenance of the status quo by people in power perpetuate wide and deepening racial disparities in education funding. Taking a lesson from community organizers fighting for a racially equitable school funding system, Liu work is a bold call to address structural racism at the root and organize from a place of abundant justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A critical race perspective on school funding

Policies and structures that protect white-district domination

Stopgap efforts for a systemic problem

Race-conscious losses and colorblind wins during the Hornbeck and Rendell eras

"Speaking with one [colormute] voice"

Displacing racial equity

Broadening our vision for school funding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226832692

0226832694

9780226832715

0226832716

OCLC:

1393095741

Publisher Number:

99996448184