DIVIDING THE PUBLIC school finance and the creation of structural inequity.

In Dividing the Public, Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and economic disparities that characterize public education funding in the United States. With California as his focus, Kelly illustrates that the use of local taxes to fund public education was never an inadvertent or de facto pr...

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Main Author: KELLY, MATTHEW GARDNER
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024.
Series:Histories of American Education Series
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction: Narratives of State Innocence and the History of School Finance --  |t 1. Funding for Education, Settler Colonialism, and the "California Experiment" in Common School Centralization, 1848-1865 --  |t 2. Buying and Selling Schools and Racializing Space in a Western State --  |t 3. Finance Reform and the Contested Meaning of "Public" in the 1870s and 1880s --  |t 4. State-Sponsored Inequalities, Boosterism, and the Race for Progressive Era School Reform, 1890-1910 --  |t 5. The Rise of the District Property Tax, Educational Expertise, and Rationalized Inequality, 1910-1928 --  |t 6. The Art of Addressing Inequality While Expanding It, 1928-1950 --  |t Epilogue: Inequity Triumphant --  |t Appendix: School Finance Data --  |t Notes --  |t Index 
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