TY  - SER
AU  - Faw, Leah 
AU  - Jabbar, Huriya
TI  - Poor Choices: : The Sociopolitical Context of “Grand Theft Education”
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Sage
N2  - In recent years, districts have paid special attention to the common practice of “district hopping,” families bending geographic school assignment rules by sending a child to a school in a district where the child does not formally reside—usually to a district that is more desirable because of higher performing schools or greater educational resources. In several high-profile cases, mothers who engaged in district hopping were charged with “grand theft” of educational services. By situating these cases in the broader context of market-based reforms, we refocus attention on the responses of districts rather than the actions of parents. We argue that increased privatization of education and growing dominance of a “private-goods” model of schooling create the conditions necessary for framing these actions as “theft.”

UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916651322
ER  -