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Kotok, Stephen; Beabout, Brian; Nelson, Steven L.; Rivera, Luis E. – Education and Urban Society, 2018
Following the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans public schools underwent a variety of changes including a mass influx of charter schools as well as a demographic shift in the racial composition of the district. Using school-level data from the Louisiana Department of Education, this study examines the extent that New Orleans public schools…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Racial Composition
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Chapman, Thandeka K. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2018
The controversial glory of the "Brown" decisions and the retraction of court-ordered reforms represent the limited gains of racial justice in education and the protection of white privilege through law and policy. The return to segregation, as propagated through the rise of racially and economically segregated charter schools, exhibits…
Descriptors: School Segregation, School Desegregation, School Resegregation, Charter Schools
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Vasquez Heilig, Julian; Clark, Brent, Jr. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Charter schools have seen a nearly tripling in students, with approximately 3.1 million students enrolled in 2016-2017. As of 2017, 1 in 8 African American students attended a charter school in the United States. This article provides a conceptual introduction to a special issue on equity issues within the charter school movement, with a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Equal Education, School Choice, Minority Group Students