Author: Keith G. Filipiak
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Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Heather Bennett
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Languages : en
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Recent demographic shifts of minority and low-income populations to the suburbs have transformed metropolitan areas. However, such transformations have contributed to increasing racial and economic segregation between jurisdictions. This dissertation explores how housing and school district policies of two suburban school districts within an affluent northeast county function together to impact the racial and economic demographic shaping and segregation between these school districts. To better understand the role of policy in the increasing demographic shaping and segregation between northern metropolitan suburban school districts I examined two themes in the literature: the suburban construct as White spaces and the link between political fragmentation in metropolitan areas to education and residential segregation. This research was conducted as a sequential mixed method multiple embedded case study to answer the following question: How does housing and school policy function together to impact the racial and economic segregation between Lower Merion School District (LMSD) and Cheltenham School District (CSD) within Montgomery County, Pennsylvania? More specifically, how have school districts and municipalities housing and population demographics in Montgomery County changed between 1960-2014?; and What federal, state, and local housing and school district policies and jurisprudence contribute to the demographic segregation between suburban school districts in Montgomery County, and how, respectively, do they do so? Currently, Lower Merion School District is a predominately White and affluent community, while Cheltenham School District is racially and socioeconomically diverse. Yet in 1960, both districts municipalities had a predominately White population (95-99%) and similar economic demographics. Examining these two districts provided an insight to how divergent goals, cultural purposes, and implementation of housing and education policies have contributed to the demographic trajectory of each suburban jurisdiction. Findings suggest that suburban municipalities practiced exclusionary policies to keep out minority and low-income populations from a demographically changing Philadelphia core. However, the cultural narrative of each municipality imparted different zoning and housing goals and policies that shaped the divergent demographics of each area. Lower Merion reflected a Main Line narrative, concentrated in the production of wealth and whiteness. Cheltenhams narrative focused on creating a diverse community that emerged over time. The findings also suggest that the municipalities shape the geographic and cultural boundaries not the school districts in Pennsylvania. School districts are often reacting to demographic shifts predicated by municipality zoning choices, but they do mostly reinforce the cultural narrative of the municipality that include or exclude populations. Furthermore, the continued perception of quality suburbs as White spaces allows segregated schools and communities to persist.

Author: Polly J. Price
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 161592101X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Through internal court documents, interviews, and Arnold's diaries, Price traces the former judge's life, career, and political transformation from an elite Southerner with deep misgivings about "Brown v. Board of Education" to a modern champion of civil rights.

Author: Campbell F. Scribner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501704109
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment to those values was shifting and selective. In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law. Scribner’s account unfolds on the metropolitan fringe, where rapid suburbanization overlapped with the consolidation of thousands of small rural schools. Rural residents initially clashed with their new neighbors, but by the 1960s the groups had rallied to resist government oversight. What began as residual opposition to school consolidation would transform into campaigns against race-based busing, unionized teachers, tax equalization, and secular curriculum. In case after case, suburban conservatives carved out new rights for local autonomy, stifling equal educational opportunity. Yet Scribner also provides insight into why many conservatives have since abandoned localism for policies that stress school choice and federal accountability. In the 1970s, as new battles arose over unions, textbooks, and taxes, districts on the rural-suburban fringe became the first to assert individual choice in the form of school vouchers, religious exemptions, and a marketplace model of education. At the same time, they began to embrace tax limitation and standardized testing, policies that checked educational bureaucracy but bypassed local school boards. The effect, Scribner concludes, has been to reinforce inequalities between districts while weakening participatory government within them, keeping the worst aspects of local control in place while forfeiting its virtues.

Author: Nebraska. Department of Public Instruction
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Nebraska; Dept; Of Public Instruction
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331052456
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Excerpt from The Consolidation of School Districts An address delivered before the Department of School Administration, National Educational Association, Thursday morning. July 9, 1903. This subject is usually more fully expressed as The Consolidation of School Districts, the Centralization of Rural Schools, and the Transportation of Pupils at Public Expense. The ideal plan contemplates the discontinuance of the small schools within a given area, say a congressional township, and the maintenance of one graded school instead at some point near the center of the township. To illustrate: suppose a township to be divided into nine rural school districts, each comprising four square miles of territory, with a low assessed valuation, a high tax levy, a small, neglected and dilapidated frame schoolhouse varying from 16x24 feet to 24x30 feet, with three windows on each side and one window and a door in one end, a stove, and without basement and interior closets. This schoolhouse, if located at the center of this school district of four square miles, will be two miles by section line roads from the homes at the corners of the district. School is maintained six, seven or eight months during the year, under the jurisdiction of a board of three trustees, and in our busy western section of the country, is usually taught by a young woman under twenty-one years of age, who is paid $30 amouth for teaching or "keeping" school, building fires and " sweeping out." In this school we may find an average daily attendance of sixteen pupils, a high estimate by the way, representing all ages from five to twenty years, all grades from the primary to the high school and occasionally with two or three high school branches crowded in. and from thirty to forty recitations daily. The attendance is irregular and spasmodic, and tardiness is often the rule, children continuing to arrive until ten o'clock. Pupils are "put back." term after term by the "new" teacher, as records are usually destroyed or lost. Apparatus is either unknown or out-of-date, blackboard scanty and furniture rackety. This is the good old-fashioned "deestrick skool" taught by the new woman of twenty whohas succeeded and supplanted theold man of forty - and of forty years ago! Consolidation or centralization proposes to discontinue these small districts as separate organizations, and these rural schools and schoolhouses, and to establish in lien thereof one central graded school for the township, housing ten or more grades in a four-room frame or brick schoolhouse, well constructed, correctly lighted, heated, ventilated, and seated, with basement and interior closets, a janitor, a principal and three other teachers, thirty-six pupils and three grades to the room, twelve to fifteen recitations daily in each room, and to transport the pupils by public conveyance to and from the schoolhouse daily. We would then have a township board of education of five or seven members, would and could pay the principal $60.00 to $75.00 a month and the three assistants about $45.00 a month each. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Salvatore A. Sansone
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Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity
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Category : Segregation in education
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: William A. Fischel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226251314
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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A significant factor for many people deciding where to live is the quality of the local school district, with superior schools creating a price premium for housing. The result is a “race to the top,” as all school districts attempt to improve their performance in order to attract homebuyers. Given the importance of school districts to the daily lives of children and families, it is surprising that their evolution has not received much attention. In this provocative book, William Fischel argues that the historical development of school districts reflects Americans’ desire to make their communities attractive to outsiders. The result has been a standardized, interchangeable system of education not overly demanding for either students or teachers, one that involved parents and local voters in its governance and finance. Innovative in its focus on bottom-up processes generated by individual behaviors rather than top-down decisions by bureaucrats, Making the Grade provides a new perspective on education reform that emphasizes how public schools form the basis for the localized social capital in American towns and cities.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Languages : en
Pages : 1558

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