Activist Scholarship in Action: The Prevention of a Latino School Closure

Autor/in	Valencia, Richard R.
Titel	Activist Scholarship in Action: The Prevention of a Latino School Closure
Quelle	In: Journal of Latinos and Education, 11 (2012) 2, S.69-79 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-8431
DOI	10.1080/15348431.2012.659559
Schlagwörter	School Closing; Equal Education; Declining Enrollment; Mexican Americans; Academic Achievement; Average Daily Attendance; Second Language Learning; Court Litigation; Goodness of Fit; Boards of Education; Prevention; Budgets; Retrenchment; Case Studies; Hispanic American Students; English Language Learners; School Districts; Educational Quality; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Hispanoamerikaner; Schulleistung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Rechtsstreit; Ausschuss; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Finanzhaushalt; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; School district; Schulbezirk; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Kalifornien
Abstract	Primarily because of underutilized schools (caused by declining enrollments) and the need to address budgetary deficits brought on by dramatic reductions in average daily attendance, many public school districts, in decades past and the present, have been forced to close numerous schools across the nation. The school boards of these economically troubled districts have resorted to consolidation to help alleviate their financial woes. In highly segregated biethnic or triethnic districts, school boards continue to struggle in deciding which schools to close. The closures of schools with high enrollments of Mexican American or other Latino students who are of low socioeconomic status and who are English language learners are particularly problematic, given their vulnerability for school failure. This article involves a case study of 1 such school proposed for closure, Park Oaks Elementary School in the Conejo Valley Unified School District (Southern California). Via activist scholarship, I relate how my efforts in documenting a goodness of fit at Park Oaks Elementary School proved successful in preventing the school from being closed. A major implication stemming from this study is that educational equality for Latino students and their parents can be achieved without having to resort to litigation. Unfortunately, months after this article was accepted for publication I received some very bad news that the school board reneged on its decision not to close Park Oaks. I explain these events in the Epilogue. (Contains 8 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10