Recommended Reading

​to Understand the Takeover

Buras, Kristin. What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School Paperback (Beacon Press, July 29, 2025)

Buras, Kristin. Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance (Routledge, 2014)

Buras, Kristin. Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City: Stories of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans. (Teachers College Press, 2010)

Morel, Domingo. ​Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy (2018, Oxford University Press)

Ravitch, Diane. Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools. (Vintage, 2020)