{"id":69,"date":"2017-05-12T10:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2017-05-13T22:34:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T02:34:48","slug":"impact-of-school-closing-opening-charter-schools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/impact-of-school-closing-opening-charter-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Illusion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The logic behind school closure follows the assumption that charter schools will replace \u201cfailing\u201d schools in urban areas and provide a new path to equitable education, promising improved achievement and performance. This deceitful framework somehow became an accepted justification that warrants the demolishing of public housing, privatizing public resources and converting to charter schools rather than addressing the core problems that produced underperforming or under-enrolled schools.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118\" class=\"wp-image-118 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/infographic-myths.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/infographic-myths.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/infographic-myths-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/infographic-myths-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/infographic-myths-768x991.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/infographic-myths-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/infographic-myths-624x805.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from: http:\/\/schottfoundation.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/debunking-myths-school-closures<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_192\" style=\"width: 963px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-image-192 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-13-at-1.12.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-13-at-1.12.59-PM.png 953w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-13-at-1.12.59-PM-150x126.png 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-13-at-1.12.59-PM-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-13-at-1.12.59-PM-768x643.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-gshin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-13-at-1.12.59-PM-624x523.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from: Journey for Justice Alliance (2014) Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closure, and Public School Sabotage. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.j4jalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/J4JReport-final_05_12_14.pdf<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Who Benefits From Closing Schools?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Financial speculator, Wall Street bankers, and hedge fund operators! They make\u00a0enormous profits by privatizing components of public schools in underserved neighborhoods, specifically off of bonds sold by charter school companies in urban areas which primarily enroll students of Color. <sup>5<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5. Pauline Lipman, \u201cSchool Closings: The Nexus of White Supremacy, State Abandonment, and Accumulation by Dispossession,\u201d in <i>What\u2019s Race Got To Do With It?<\/i>, ed. Bree Picker and Edwin Mayorga (New York: Peter Lang, 2015), 70<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The logic behind school closure follows the assumption that charter schools will replace \u201cfailing\u201d schools in urban areas and provide a new path to equitable education, promising improved achievement and performance. 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