id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt RefID-484-buras2014charter Buras,Kristen L. Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance 2014 .txt text/plain 646 20 35 Lessons Learned from the Bottom-Up (with Urban South Grassroots Research Collective) “Buras does an excellent job of explaining the realities of the privatization of public schools in New Orleans. Her case study of New Orleans—where veteran teachers were fired en masse and the nation's first all-charter school district was developed—shows that such reform is less about the needs of racially oppressed communities and more about the production of an urban space economy in which white entrepreneurs capitalize on black children and neighborhoods. cache/RefID-484-buras2014charter.txt txt/RefID-484-buras2014charter.txt