Other People's Children : The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey's Schools /

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In 1981, when Raymond Abbott was a twelve-year-old sixth-grader in Camden, New Jersey, poor city school districts like his spent 25 percent less per student than the state's wealthy suburbs did. That year, Abbott became the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit demanding that the state provi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Yaffe, Deborah, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public schools > Finance
Property tax > Law and legislation
Educational law and legislation
Education > Finance > Law and legislation
Education and state
EDUCATION > General.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > New Jersey.
Democratisation de l'enseignement > New Jersey > Coût.
Écoles publiques > New Jersey > Finances.
Education and state > New Jersey.
Educational equalization > New Jersey > Costs.
Public schools > New Jersey > Finance.
Property tax > Law and legislation > New Jersey.
Educational law and legislation > New Jersey.
Education > Finance > Law and legislation > New Jersey.
New Jersey
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Jersey city's tax war
  • Celebrating the bicentennial
  • The true believer
  • Son of Robinson
  • The families
  • "The system is broken"
  • The twenty-one/forty-one rule
  • The children of Abbott
  • A constitutional right to astroturf
  • "We do not run school systems"
  • The children grow up.

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