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‘The kind of things we’ve heard keep people in the district’: White racial exclusion and the evolution of school choice policies in Portland Public Schools

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  • Leanne Serbulo

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This policy history traces the evolution of Portland Public Schools’ school choice programme from the early 1970s until 2010 and examines its impacts on the historically black Albina neighbourhood. The purpose of this research is to identify the ideologies and assumptions that led to the establishment of the initial school choice programme and continued to influence decision makers as the programme evolved into a more neoliberal marketplace of schools. The district originally embraced controlled choice as a means to manage integration so it would not significantly tip the racial balance in predominantly white schools. By opting to make integration voluntary for students in predominantly white schools, the board legitimised white parents’ preferences for racially exclusionary school settings. In Portland Public Schools, white racial exclusion laid the foundation that shaped the technologies of the school choice programme as it developed into a more neoliberal iteration.

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  • Leanne Serbulo, 2019. "‘The kind of things we’ve heard keep people in the district’: White racial exclusion and the evolution of school choice policies in Portland Public Schools," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(15), pages 3292-3307, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:56:y:2019:i:15:p:3292-3307
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098019842974
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    1. Willem Boterman & Sako Musterd & Carolina Pacchi & Costanzo Ranci, 2019. "School segregation in contemporary cities: Socio-spatial dynamics, institutional context and urban outcomes," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(15), pages 3055-3073, November.
    2. Miguel Angel Montalva Barba, 2023. "To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(5), pages 791-810, April.
    3. Pablo Santiago Serrati, 2024. "School and residential segregation in the reproduction of urban segregation: A case study in Buenos Aires," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 61(2), pages 313-330, February.

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