We welcome back Dr. Ujju Aggarwal, assistant professor at The New School, to speak about her book, Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education. In Unsettling Choice, Dr. Aggarwal focuses on the intersection of public education and gentrification. The book is based on her work with mothers at a Head Start center in NYC. We discuss the race and class discrimination the parents faced and whether exclusion is inherent in school choice programs.
Overview
00:00-00:56 Intros
00:56-07:13 Working with Head Start mothers in Manhattan’s Community School District 3
07:13-09:15 Connection between school choice and austerity
09:15-19:17 Issues mothers faced in choosing schools for their children and their experiences
19:17-24:06 The “post-Brown realignment” following the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decisions
24:06-25:30 Parents as “consumers” rather than as “citizens”
25:30-28:01 Can school choice exist without exclusion
28:01-29:03 NYC Schools Chancellor Samuels and citywide integration
29:03-32:21 Radical municipalism
32:21- Outro
Transcript
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