ABSTRACT

Minoritized communities throughout the world engage in spaces of educational decision-making to advocate for equity-oriented policies. In this article, we explore such advocacy at the local level in school board meetings in the United States. Specifically, we examine school board meeting rules from meetings featuring the advocacy of mainly Black community members who aimed to address inequities in a suburban school district governed by a largely white school board. Informed by the theories of community cultural wealth and whiteness as property, we used qualitative case study methods to analyze board meeting videos to understand how rules facilitate opportunities for advancing or inhibiting equity-oriented policymaking at the district level. Illustrating the racialization of school board meeting rules, our findings emphasize how community advocates enacted resistance and navigational strategies to work around rules that board members used to maintain and reify whiteness as property. We conclude with implications for enhancing opportunities for equity-oriented policymaking via school board meetings and other local educational spaces of decision-making and for future research.

摘要

世界各地的少数族裔社区参与教育决策空间，以倡导以公平为导向的政策。在本文中，我们探讨了在美国学校董事会会议上地方层面的这种倡导。具体来说，我们从主要由黑人社区成员倡导的会议中检查学校董事会会议规则，这些成员旨在解决由白人学校董事会管理的郊区学区的不平等现象。根据社区文化财富和白人作为财产的理论，我们使用定性案例研究方法分析董事会会议视频，以了解规则如何促进在地区层面推进或抑制以公平为导向的政策制定的机会。说明学校董事会会议规则的种族化，我们的研究结果强调了社区倡导者如何制定抵抗和导航策略来解决董事会成员用来维持和具体化白人作为财产的规则。我们总结了通过学校董事会会议和其他当地教育决策空间增加以公平为导向的决策机会以及对未来研究的影响。