Concentrated Poverty and Urban School Reform: "The Choice Is Yours" in Minneapolis

Autor/in	Kraus, Neil
Titel	Concentrated Poverty and Urban School Reform: "The Choice Is Yours" in Minneapolis
Quelle	In: Equity & Excellence in Education, 41 (2008) 2, S.262-274 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-5684
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; School Restructuring; Poverty; Educational Change; Low Achievement; Court Litigation; Equal Education; School Choice; Low Income Groups; Minority Group Children; Parent Attitudes; Satisfaction; Suburban Schools; Educational Environment; School Desegregation; Racial Discrimination; Social Discrimination; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Armut; Bildungsreform; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Rechtsstreit; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Elternverhalten; Zufriedenheit; Suburban area; Outskirts; Suburb; Vorort; Vorstadt; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Integrative Schule; Racial bias; Rassismus; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung
Abstract	The subject of urban schools has received extensive scholarly and popular attention in recent years, and a wide variety of policies to address the problem of low educational achievement has been suggested. This article, based on an analysis of documents and reports, in-depth interviews, and a variety of secondary sources, examines the first several years of the implementation of a 2000 legal settlement between the Minneapolis Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the State of Minnesota regarding the Minneapolis schools. Influenced by the "Sheff v. O'Neill" (1996) case in Hartford, Connecticut, the Minneapolis NAACP's lawsuit challenged the State's oversight of the Minneapolis schools under the Minnesota Constitution. The settlement created two new programs intended to provide low-income Minneapolis students more options in selecting schools. This article focuses on the more wide-ranging of these two programs, which buses up to 2,000 low-income urban students annually to suburban Minneapolis schools at State expense. The creation of the suburban transfer program represents a legal and political victory for the NAACP and its supporters. Yet the transfer program highlights the many obstacles faced by low-income students and reinforces the necessity for a multi-dimensional approach to high-poverty urban schools. (Contains 2 tables and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10