A Level Playing Field

You Have 0 Item(s) In Cart |

My Account |

Order Status |

Check Out |

A Level Playing Field
School Finance in the Northeast

Click on image to enlarge

Jane Fowler Morse - Author

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 365 pages

Release Date: December 2006

ISBN10: 0-7914-6931-X
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6931-6

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 365 pages

Release Date: December 2006

ISBN10: 0-7914-6932-8
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6932-3

Available as a Google eBook for other eReaders and tablet devices. Click icon below...

Available as a Kindle Edition. Click icon below...

Summary

Examines the legal and political details of school funding reform in New York, Vermont, and Ontario.

In this timely work, Jane Fowler Morse reviews the history of school finance litigation in the United States and then examines recent legal and political struggles to obtain equitable school funding in New York, Vermont, and Ontario. These three places have employed strikingly different strategies to address this issue, and Morse analyzes lessons learned at each that will benefit both public officials and citizens interested in seeking reform elsewhere. Drawing on writers from Aristotle to Cass Sunstein and Martin Luther King Jr., she also explores the concepts of social justice and equity, highlighting the connections between racism, poverty, and school funding. The result is a passionate plea for equitable funding of public education nationwide to instantiate the ideal of “liberty and justice for all.”

“This interesting and important book covers a critical topic in a thorough and well-documented way. Indeed, it provides an encyclopedia of school law cases that are relevant not only to school finance, but also to school equity. Policy and law scholars, as well as historians, will find this an important reference, and the book can be used in courses in school law, policy studies, and administration.” — Ellen Brantlinger, author of Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage

Jane Fowler Morse is Professor of Education at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Preface

1. Education, Inequity, and the Level Playing Field

2. The Search for a Legal Solution in New York

3. Sharing in Vermont

4. Executive Reform in Ontario

5. The Impact of Poverty on Children’s Performance in School

6. The Impact of Racism on Children’s Performance in School

7. Education Funding and Progress

Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Authorities
Index

Related Subjects

Education Policy and Leadership
Foundations of Education

45382/45383(LC/DG/AV)

Related Titles


Teaching Politics in Secondary Education	Social Theory and Education	Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings	Lessons from Restructuring Experiences	Assessment and Access
Changing American Education	Practice Makes Practice	Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Psychology, and Educational Theory and Practice	The Very Thought of Education	The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools