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Jordan P. Fullam – Critical Education, 2025
Newark, New Jersey has been at the forefront of school reform from the civil rights era through more recent efforts to resist neoliberal school reform approaches during the 2010s. Drawing on interviews with activists, policymakers, and school reformers, this paper documents the history of community organizing as a strategy to improve conditions in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community Action, Educational History, Municipalities
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Navarro, Armando – Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, 2000
In 1969 after an intense political campaign, three Mexican Americans won seats on the board of trustees of the Cucamonga (California) School District--the Chicano Movement's first successful effort at community control of a school board. Political organizing strategies, community-initiated self-help projects, the new board's educational reforms,…
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Community Control, Educational Change