Coercion and consent for the U.S. education market
Community engagement policy under racialized fiscal surveillance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11488341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | René Espinoza Kissell (0000-0002-1047-7262, Education Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 738-760 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Education Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-0939 • E-ISSN: 1464-5106 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02680939.2022.2112759 |
| OpenAlex | W4293434381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 40 |
In response to growing pushback to decades of privatization and disinvestment in high-poverty communities of color, elected officials and business leaders in the United States have turned to ‘community-engaged strategies’ to advance education reform. This qualitative case study of a California school district, the Oakland Unified School District, from 1989 to 2019 uses a Gramscian analysis of hegemony to illuminate the shift from coercive practices of financial audits to building consent through the district’s formal engagement strategies as tools to manage public dissent around divisive decisions. Findings reveal that a manufacturedscrisis facilitated the 2003 state takeover of OUSD to further advancesausterity measures and audit processes that served as racialized formssof fiscal surveillance. When local resistance to these measures intensified, district actors shifted tactics to ‘engage’ community members through a portfolio strategy to manage school choice options and other public-private partnerships. Oakland public schools are a prime case of how democratic mechanisms serve as the vehicle to manufacture public consent for district redesign by way of marketization. This paper contributes new insights into local and global debates on educational privatization by critically examining the role of parastatal audit agencies in shaping community support for public-privateeducation governance along with tracing the shifting tactics of elite policy actors
Accountability · Audit · Business · Corporate governance · Marketization · Political science · Public relations · Critical Race Theory in Education · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Public Administration · Accounting · Finance
Manufacturing Consent
Takeover
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
The Politics of Venture Philanthropy in Charter School Policy and Advocacy
“Every Kid Is Money”
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Ghetto Schooling
Policing the Crisis
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Golden Gulag
Disciplining the Poor
For a Sociological Marxism
Education and new hegemonic blocs
Multiple paths towards education privatization in a globalizing world
After the fall
Framing and selling global education policy
Philanthropizing’ consent
Paying for financial expertise
Marketing diversity
Economic crisis, accountability, and the state’s coercive assault on public education in the USA
Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Leading Towards Equity Through Decades of Reform
No Small Thing
Privatising education, privatising education policy, privatising educational research
Teaching the market
Network Governance Theory
The Radical Promise of Reformist Zeal
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |