UW–Madison’s Kevin Henry has published a new paper in the journal Educational Policy that is titled, “‘The Price of Disaster’: The Charter School Authorization Process in Post-Katrina New Orleans.”
Henry is an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
Utilizing the case of post-Katrina New Orleans, the paper applies Critical Race Theory to the charter school authorization process, which Henry writes is “an understudied aspect of charter school policy” in the paper’s abstract.
Though the authorization process is “understood as an objective, colorblind process,” he writes, it is “a foundational gatekeeping mechanism” that is “embedded within and constitutive of on-going processes of racial formation and racialized power solidification.”
Learn more and access the full paper, here.