Black Representation and Educational Policy: Are They Related?

Kenneth J. Meier and Robert E. England

American Political Science Review, 1984, vol. 78, issue 2, 392-403

Abstract: This study examines the impact of black school board members on educational policies that affect black students. Using data from 82 of the largest urban school districts in the United States, several measures of second-generation educational discrimination are analyzed. Black membership on the school board is associated with more equitable educational policies; this relationship remains in some cases even with controls for black political and economic resources. The implications of these findings for the study of representation are then discussed.

Date: 1984
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