Social Construction Is Racial Construction: Examining the Target Populations in School-Choice Policies.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We examine policy influencers' perceptions of the targets of school-choice policy across five states, exploring how constructions varied for White and racially minoritized families, whether policy actors conceived of the "target" of policy as the child or the parent, and how these racialized constructions varied across different types of school-choice policies.

Research methods/approach

We conducted 56 semistructured interviews in 2019 with state-level stakeholders across five states.

Findings

We found that policy actors generally viewed White families as strong and racially minoritized families as weak. However, for both groups, we found variation in whether these constructions were positive or negative and differences between students and parents. We find th

SUBMITTER: Jabbar H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11178037 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature