School Choice or the Politics of Desperation? Black and Latinx Parents of Students with Dis/Abilities Selecting Charter Schools in Chicago

Autor/inn/en	Waitoller, Federico R.; Super, Gia
Titel	School Choice or the Politics of Desperation? Black and Latinx Parents of Students with Dis/Abilities Selecting Charter Schools in Chicago
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 25 (2017) 55, (46 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-2341
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Disabilities; School Choice; Parent Role; Interviews; Charter Schools; Parent Participation; Decision Making; Neoliberalism; Urban Areas; Special Education; Political Issues; Racial Bias; Ethnic Groups; Educational Change; School Closing; At Risk Students; Grounded Theory; Coding; Parent Attitudes; Poverty; School Safety; Neighborhoods; Educational Quality; Illinois (Chicago) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Handicap; Behinderung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Parental role; Elternrolle; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Elternmitwirkung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Urban area; Stadtregion; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Politischer Faktor; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Ethnie; Bildungsreform; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Codierung; Programmierung; Elternverhalten; Armut; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität
Abstract	In this paper, we focus on the city of Chicago to examine how Black and Latinx parents of students with dis/abilities1 engage with school choice. Using analytical tools from grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1990) and a theoretical lens informed by critical notions of space, race and dis/ability, we analyze interviews with parents of students with dis/abilities, field notes, and various artifacts from charter schools (e.g., student handbooks and websites). We found that parents engaged with the "politics of desperation" (Stovall, 2013): an assemblage of thoughts and rationales to make school decisions amid poor and ableist educational options for Black and Latinx students with dis/abilities. We found that the neoliberal restructuring of urban education space was a driving force shaping parents' engagement with the politics of desperation. Thus, our study sheds light on the relationship between race, dis/ability, and urban spatial restructuring. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01