Author Conversation: Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve – May 8

Posted by Penn Bookstore on April 30, 2024

Roseann Lui, author of Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve, will be in conversation with Councilmember Kendra Brooks on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 3:00 PM at the Penn bookstore, 3601 Walnut Sreet, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

Roseann Liu is an assistant professor of education studies at Wesleyan University and a visiting assistant professor of Asian American studies and educational studies at Swarthmore College. She is a scholar of race, education inequality, and social justice.

For people who care about urban school districts like Philadelphia’s, addressing the challenges that these schools face often boils down to the need for more money. But why are urban districts that serve Black and Brown students still so perennially underfunded compared to majority-white ones?

Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve provides an inside look at the Pennsylvania state legislature and campaigns for fair funding to show how those responsible for the distribution of school funding work to maintain the privileges of majority-white school districts.