Full Description
This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy, and also recognizes the changing demographics of schools and their need to integrate with economic development policy in order to promote broader community development.
The book includes chapters on tax abatements and economic development policy impacts on schools, new approaches to school building renovation, the potential and reach of shared services between communities and schools, and the impact of school-based health centers. It also offers a theory to integrate schools into community development. Key elements include shared power between communities and schools, greater transparency in economic development policy, collaboration across the broad range of community actors, and engagement of diverse voices. These elements build a greater sense of belonging across generations and class and racial divides.
Creative democracy can broaden both school and community development agendas and build a culture of health. This book will help community development and school leaders recognize and pursue the promise of schools as critical community development actors.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.
Contents
Part 1 Introduction: Schools and Community Development 1. Community Development and Schools: Interrelationships, Conflict, and Power 2. Youth Demographic Trends and Equity Considerations Part 2 Financial and Physical: Economic Development Policy and Schools 3. The Cost of Tax Incentives to Public Schools 4. Urban Schools and the Growth Machine 5. School-Centered Community Development: Lessons from Baltimore's 21st Century School Buildings Program Part 3 Institutional and Social: Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation 6. Joint Use Between Communities and Schools: Unpacking Dimensions of Power 7. Joint Use Service Delivery in New York State School Districts 8. School-Based Health Centers and Rural Community Health Part 4 Conclusion 9. Conclusion: A Broader Vision of Community Development, Schools, and Power
