The Color of Neoliberal Reform

A Critical Race Policy Analysis of School District Takeovers in Michigan

Bibliographic Data

ID10856470
AuthorsJames Wright (0009-0008-3205-8916), Taeyeon Kim (0000-0002-5285-4767, San Diego State University, CA, USA, corresponding author), Ronald W Whitaker (Cabrini University, Radnor, PA, USA), Muhammad Khalifa (0000-0002-3100-9353, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA), Felecia Briscoe (The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA), Felecia M Briscoe (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
Year2020
Volume55
Issue3
Pages424-447
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0859 • E-ISSN: 1552-8340
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042085918806943
OpenAlexW2902924126
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited41

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

Control (management) · Critical race theory · Economics · Management · Physics · Political science · Power (physics) · Privilege (computing) · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · State (computer science) · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education Discipline and Inequality · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society

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