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作者

James Wright, Ronald W. Whitaker, II, Muhammad Khalifa, Felecia Briscoe

来源

URBAN EDUCATION,Vol.55,Issue3,P.424–447

语言

英文

关键字

urban education, emergency management law, education policy, neoliberalism, Detroit, critical race theory, critical policy analysis

作者单位

1San Diego State University, CA, USA;2Cabrini University, Radnor, PA, USA;3University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA;4The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA

摘要

This critical case study analyzes Michigan’s implementation of Public Act 4 (PA4), also known as the emergency management (EM) takeover law. PA4 grants the state control of school districts with dire budgetary problems. As most U.S. school districts are citywide, PA4 gives the state direct control over all the (previously locally controlled) schools in Detroit. We use tenets from critical race theory (CRT) and components from critical policy analysis (CPA) and offer a critical race policy analysis (CRPA) to explore racial power and privilege enacted by PA4, imposed upon Detroit.