esthercyna.bsky.social
📚 Racial discrimination & school finance, education history, US South
🏫 MCF/ Associate prof of US history, University of Versailles
🖋️ Working on 'Plunder: A History of Racism & School Finance in the US South' with UNC Press
💻 https://esthercyna.com
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First article is by @esthercyna.bsky.social and me: we lay out critical school finance as a framework, going back to first principles on what “critical” really means, combined with more recent concepts like racial capitalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Merci 😊
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Serait-ce possible de m'ajouter ? Merci ☺️
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It's the topic of the last chapter of my book; I show that some school choice policies and arguments date back to Redemption and to fiscal strategies White elites used at the turn of the 20th c, so the racist impact isn't surprising. On choice I enjoyed reading Jon Hale's The Choice We Face #histed
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👋🏼 would love to be added to the list 😊
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Thanks! I started studying school finance and ed inequality because reality seemed so far from the narratives of education as an equalizer that I had been brought up with. For policy, my work and others’ show how harmful localized funding has often been (i.e. using property tax to fund schools)