Participatory budgeting in schools as a tool for racial justice

Jonathan E. Collins, Pamela Jennings, Matthew Lioe, Camila Olander Echavarria, Janelle Haire and Emma Britton Miller

Chapter 2 in Educating for Democracy, 2024, pp 37-57 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a widely used practice for generating mass public participation to improve the quality of public goods and services. We assess the capacity for School Participatory Budgeting (School PB), which focuses specifically on schools and public education, to be a tool for fostering racial equity and justice. We argue that School PB can be useful under conditions we outline through the GRACE model. To test our model, we provide an evaluation of a School PB initiative in a mostly Latino immigrant community. Overall, we find that School PB in a community of color leads to increases in attitudes of empowerment as well as more civic participation and representative decision-making.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Education; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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