BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Dear colleagues and friends\,\nYou are cordially invited to&nbs p\;join the upcoming webinar/seminar \;on the Marketization and Privat ization in Education seminar series. The next session\, with \;Dr. Kri sten Buras (bio below)\, is on Charter Schools\, Race\, and Urban Space Wh ere the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance (abstract below).\nThis seminar will take place at 1pm (PDT)/ 3pm (CDT) on April 7th (Tue)\, 2015. There are three possible methods of joining the seminar.\n(1) If you would like to attend in person in Vancouver\, please come to Scarfe 308A\, UBC (Vanco uver campus). Map at: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y\ ,n\,n\,n\,n\,y&\;bldg2Search=n&\;locat1=240-1\n(2) If you are attend ing in person in Urbana-Champaign\, please come to #22 in College of Educa tion\, University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign.\n(3) If you are joining the \;webinar\, please go to \;http://bluejeans.com/ \;and cli ck “Join meeting” as a participant and enter Meeting ID: \;305154344&n bsp\; \; Please join us 10 minutes prior to the meeting time so that w e can ensure everyone’s audio and video work properly.\nFor webinar partic ipants\, please (1) mute your microphone\, (2) turn off your video feed\, and (3) do not share screen. If you would like to ask questions or need te chnical assistance\, please use the 'CHAT' typing function.\n**To give us a better idea of how many attendees/participants we may have\, please RSVP by filling out the form:\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EIbEi3bA5HuAkV hMLdVAZQ5qOn7EWSP9RjKM3-ZfY8g/viewform?c=0&\;w=1&\;usp=mail_form_lin k\nFor questions or other assistance\, please send a message to Ee-Seul Yo on (eeseul@gmail.com) or Dwayne Cover (dcover@alumni.ubc.ca).\nHope you ca n join us.\nRegards\,\nEe-Seul Yoon and Christopher Lubienski​ at the Univ ersity of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\nDwayne Cover at the University of B ritish Columbia\nAbstract\nCharter schools have been promoted as an equita ble and innovative solution to the problems plaguing urban schools. Advoca tes claim that charter schools benefit working-class students of color by offering them access to a “portfolio” of school choices. In Charter School s\, Race\, and Urban Space\, Kristen Buras presents a very different accou nt. Her case study of New Orleans—where veteran teachers were fired en mas se and the nation’s first all-charter school district was developed—shows that such reform is less about the needs of racially oppressed communities and more about the production of an urban space economy in which white en trepreneurs capitalize on black children and neighborhoods. In this reveal ing book\, Buras draws on critical theories of race\, political economy\, and space\, as well as a decade of research on the ground to expose the cr iminal dispossession of black teachers and students who have contributed t o New Orleans’ culture and history. Mapping federal\, state\, and local po licy networks\, she shows the city’s landscape has been reshaped by a stra tegic venture to privatize public education. She likewise chronicles grass roots efforts to defend historic schools and neighborhoods against this as sault\, revealing a commitment to equity and place and articulating a visi on of change that is sure to inspire heated debate among communities natio nwide.\n \;\nBio\nKristen Buras was a Wisconsin-Spencer Fellow and rec eived her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an As sociate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georg ia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Charter Schools\, Rac e\, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance\, which chronicles the past decade of education reform in New Orleans. Additionall y\, she is coauthor of Pedagogy\, Policy\, and the Privatized City: Storie s of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans\, which was recognized fo r its outstanding contribution by the Curriculum Studies Division of the A merican Educational Research Association (AERA).\nRead more at \;http: //education.gsu.edu/profile/kristen-buras/\n* If you are interested in buy ing her book\, please \;email me: eeseul@gmail.com DTEND:20150407T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260711T031528Z DTSTART:20150323T200000Z LOCATION:USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Webinar/Seminar UID:RFCALITEM639193185289565601 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Dear colleagues and friends\,

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You a re cordially invited to \;join the upcoming webinar/seminar \;on t he Marketization and Privatization in Education seminar series. The next s ession\, with \;Dr. Kristen Buras (bio below)\, is on Char ter Schools\, Race\, and Urban Space Where the Market Meets Grassroots Res istance (abstract below).

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This seminar w ill take place at 1pm (PDT)/ 3pm (CDT) on April 7th (Tue)\, 201 5. There are three possible methods of joining the seminar.< /p>\n

(1) If you would like to attend in person in Vancouver\, please come to Scarfe 308A\, UBC (V ancouver campus). Map at: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?sho w=y\,n\,n\,n\,n\,y&\;bldg2Search=n&\;locat1=240-1

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(2) If you are attending in person in Urban a-Champaign\, please come to #22 in College of Education\, Universi ty of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign.

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(3) If you are joining the  \;webinar\, please go to \;http://blue jeans.com/ \;and click “Join meeting” as a participant and enter M eeting ID: \;305154344 \; \; Please join us 1 0 minutes prior to the meeting time so that we can ensure everyone’s audio and video work properly.

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For webinar participants\, please (1) mu te your microphone\, (2) turn off your video feed\, and (3) do not share s creen. If you would like to ask questions or need technical assistance\, p lease use the 'CHAT' typing function.

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**To give us a bette r idea of how many attendees/participants we may have\, p lease RSVP by filling out the form:

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EIb Ei3bA5HuAkVhMLdVAZQ5qOn7EWSP9RjKM3-ZfY8g/viewform?c=0&\;w=1&\;usp=ma il_form_link

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For questions or other assistance\, please send a message to Ee-Seul Yoon (eeseul@gmail.c om) or Dwayne Cover (dcover@alum ni.ubc.ca).

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Hope you can join us.

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Regards\,

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Ee -Seul Yoon and Christopher Lubienski​ at the University of Illinois\, Urba na-Champaign

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Dwayne Cover at the University of British Columbia

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Abstract

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Charter schools have been promoted as an equitable and innovative solution to the problems plaguing urban sc hools. Advocates claim that charter schools benefit working-class students of color by offering them access to a “portfolio” of school choices. In C harter Schools\, Race\, and Urban Space\, Kristen Buras presents a very di fferent account. Her case study of New Orleans—where veteran teachers were fired en masse and the nation’s first all-charter school district was dev eloped—shows that such reform is less about the needs of racially oppresse d communities and more about the production of an urban space economy in w hich white entrepreneurs capitalize on black children and neighborhoods. I n this revealing book\, Buras draws on critical theories of race\, politic al economy\, and space\, as well as a decade of research on the ground to expose the criminal dispossession of black teachers and students who have contributed to New Orleans’ culture and history. Mapping federal\, state\, and local policy networks\, she shows the city’s landscape has been resha ped by a strategic venture to privatize public education. She likewise chr onicles grassroots efforts to defend historic schools and neighborhoods ag ainst this assault\, revealing a commitment to equity and place and articu lating a vision of change that is sure to inspire heated debate among comm unities nationwide.

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Bio

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K risten Buras was a Wisconsin-Spencer Fellow and received her doctorate fro m the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an Associate Professor in th e Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Charter Schools\, Race\, and Urban Space : Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance\, which chronicles the past decade of education reform in New Orleans. Additionally\, she is coa uthor of Pedagogy\, Policy\, and the Privatized City: Stories of Dispo ssession and Defiance from New Orleans\, which was recognized for its outstanding contribution by the Curriculum Studies Division of the Americ an Educational Research Association (AERA).

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Read more at \;http://education.gs u.edu/profile/kristen-buras/

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* If you are interested in buying her book\, please \;email me: eeseul@gmail.com

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