1st Edition
Community Development and Schools Conflict, Power and Promise
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, 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.
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Part I: Introduction: Schools and Community Development
Chapter 1: Community Development and Schools: Interrelationships, Conflict and Power
Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece, Xue Zhang
Chapter 2: Youth Demographic Trends and Equity Considerations
Jason Reece
Part II: Financial and Physical: Economic Development Policy and Schools
Chapter 3: The Cost of Tax Incentives to Public Schools
Christine Wen, Greg LeRoy
Chapter 4: Urban Schools and the Growth Machine
Jason Reece and Victoria Abou-Ghalioum
Chapter 5: School-Centered Community Development: Lessons from Baltimore’s 21st Century School Buildings Program
Ariel Bierbaum, Alisha Butler, Erin S. O’Keefe
Part III: Institutional and Social: Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation
Chapter 6: Joint use between Communities and Schools: Unpacking Dimensions of Power
Mildred E. Warner and Xue Zhang
Chapter 7: Joint Use Service Delivery in New York State School Districts
Yang Wang, Mildred E. Warner and John W. Sipple
Chapter 8: School-based Health Centers and Rural Community Health
Sharon Tennyson, John W. Sipple, Peter C. Fiduccia, Wendy Brunner, Elisabeth Lembo, Chris Kjolhede
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 9: A Broader Vision of Community Development, Schools and Power.
Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece and Xue Zhang
Biography
Mildred E. Warner is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University.
Jason Reece is an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Knowlton School and Vice Provost for Urban Research & Community Engagement in the Office of Academic Affairs at Ohio State University.
Xue Zhang is a research associate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University.
"This research provides stakeholders with evidence for bridging the silos of community development and public schools. This book is a must-read for stakeholders who need a new vision, plans, policies and practices to address longstanding challenges like aged and deteriorated public school buildings and grounds, which are concentrated in this nation’s low-wealth neighborhoods and communities."
Mary Filardo, Executive Director of 21st Century School Fund
