“They Don't Feel Like This Is Their Place Anymore:” School Leaders’ Understanding of the Impacts of Gentrification on Schools

A number of urban U.S. cities that were traditionally Black and underinvested are now becoming enclaves to whites upper-middle-class people. Consequently, a growing body research on schools gentrification is emerging. While most this has focused the shifts neighborhoods undergo due gentrification, we know less about how school leaders make meaning these impacts. This study draws interviews with 26 principals in two gentrifying examine impacts schools. We find understand gentrification's materially, epistemically, affectively, at same time, complicate work leaders. concludes implications for future research.