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Publication Date: 2022-Nov
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The Injustices of School District Fragmentation
Cynamon, Jeremy Kingston; Pavel, Sonia Maria
Power and Education, v14 n3 p247-261 Nov 2022
The authors argue that from the perspective of distributive justice, school district fragmentation--meaning both the existing reality of hyper-proliferated school districts and the practice of further breaking larger districts into smaller ones--produces three distinct injustices. First, it undermines racial solidarity and the bonds of community. Second, it violates the demands of procedural justice. And third, it leads to substantively unfair outcomes. Taken together, these concerns suggest that to create a more just educational system we ought to resist further fragmentation and push for larger, more consolidated school districts coupled with progressive redistributive funding. To support this central normative argument, the article provides two justifications for conceptualizing education as a fundamental entitlement and its provision as a form of mutual aid.
Descriptors: School Districts, Justice, Educational Policy, Ethics, Equal Education, Policy Analysis, School Organization, School District Reorganization, Educational Finance, Consolidated Schools
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