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Gentrification And Urban Public School Reforms: The Interest Divergence Dillema, Erika Wilson
Gentrification And Urban Public School Reforms: The Interest Divergence Dillema, Erika Wilson
Erika K. Wilson
Across the country cities are experiencing rapid increases in gentrification: the influx of middle-class, often white residents, into cities with large minority populations. In some gentrifying cities, significant numbers of white middle-class residents are enrolling their children in city public schools, reversing a long standing trend of white flight out of city schools. Local officials value the renewed interest in public schools by these residents because it represents an opportunity to keep them, and their tax dollars, from fleeing to the suburbs once they have school aged children. This Article chronicles the ways in which local officials in gentrifying cities …
Towards A Theory Of Equitable Federated Regionalism In Public Education: Reversing The Role Of School District Boundary Lines In Dismantling Brown V. Board Of Education, Erika Wilson
Erika K. Wilson
School quality and resources vary dramatically across school district boundary lines. Students who live mere miles apart have access to vastly different and disparate educational opportunities based upon which side of a school district boundary line their home is located. Owing in large part to metropolitan fragmentation, most school districts and the larger localities in which they are situated, are segregated by race and class. Further, because of a strong ideological preference for localism in public education, local government law structures in most states do not require or even encourage collaboration between school districts in order to address disparities between …