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

Other People's Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey's Schools
ISBN-10
0813542057
ISBN-13
9780813542058
Series
Other People's Children
Category
Education
Pages
370
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Rivergate Books
Author
Deborah Yaffe

Description

Other People's Children, the first book to tell the story of this decades-long school funding battle, interweaves the public story—an account of legal and political wrangling over laws and money—with the private stories of the inner-city children who were named plaintiffs in the state's two school funding lawsuits, Robinson v. Cahill and Abbott v. Burke. Although these cases have shaped New Jersey's fiscal and political landscape since the 1970s, most recently in legislative arguments over tax reform, the debate has often been too abstract and technical for most citizens to understand. Written in an accessible style and based on dozens of interviews with lawyers, politicians, and the plaintiffs themselves, Other People's Children crystallizes the arguments and clarifies the issues for general readers.

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