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Participatory budgeting in schools as a tool for racial justice

In: Educating for Democracy

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  • Jonathan E. Collins
  • Pamela Jennings
  • Matthew Lioe
  • Camila Olander Echavarria
  • Janelle Haire
  • Emma Britton Miller

Abstract

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a widely used practice for generating mass public participation to improve the quality of public goods and services. We assess the capacity for School Participatory Budgeting (School PB), which focuses specifically on schools and public education, to be a tool for fostering racial equity and justice. We argue that School PB can be useful under conditions we outline through the GRACE model. To test our model, we provide an evaluation of a School PB initiative in a mostly Latino immigrant community. Overall, we find that School PB in a community of color leads to increases in attitudes of empowerment as well as more civic participation and representative decision-making.

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  • Jonathan E. Collins & Pamela Jennings & Matthew Lioe & Camila Olander Echavarria & Janelle Haire & Emma Britton Miller, 2024. "Participatory budgeting in schools as a tool for racial justice," Chapters, in: Daniel Schugurensky & Tara Bartlett (ed.), Educating for Democracy, chapter 2, pages 37-57, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21993_2
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