Schools for Sale: Disinvestment, Dispossession, and School Building Reuse in Philadelphia

A surprising look at what happens to the actual school buildings in the wake of school closures.

School districts across the United States have closed thousands of schools since 2000 to cope with chronic underfunding and budget crises, declining enrollment, and poorly maintained buildings. Our knowledge about school closures has focused on battles over closure decision-making and the impacts of closing schools on communities of color in the immediate aftermath of these decisions. But what...