My research looks at how "nice white parents" wield power in school. And I argue that the only way to avoid the inequities they create is to: 1) decouple school funding from local taxes, 2) equitably redistribute private donations, 3) decouple school "quality" from test scores 1/ https://twitter.com/zra_research/status/1291575797489307648

Here's some of the research I'm referencing: "Avoiding Us Versus Them: How Schools' Dependence on Privileged 'Helicopter' Parents Influences Enforcement of Rules," recently published in @asr_journal. 2/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122420905793
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/vk8bt/

Basically, we have to reduce schools' financial, logistical, and reputational dependence on middle/upper-middle-class white families. And that reduction has to be system-wide. School/district-based solutions will just push "nice white parents" to move elsewhere, especially now 3/

We also have to give public schools adequate, equitably distributed federal funding - enough for every school to have "high-quality" amenities. If that doesn't happen, and as we've seen in the pandemic, "nice white parents" will flee to private schools.// https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/opinion/coronavirus-school-reopen-devos.html