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Wright-Costello, Beth; Phillippo, Kate – Education and Urban Society, 2020
Many urban districts use a portfolio management model, hoping to promote school choice and improve school performance. This model requires school closure, which has predominantly impacted lower income families. In 2013, Chicago Public Schools relocated Granger Elementary into one of 48 schools it closed, placing its middle-class parents in the…
Descriptors: Parents, Resistance (Psychology), Middle Class, School Closing