{"product_id":"dividing-the-public-school-finance-and-the-creation-of-structural-inequity-hardback-9781501773259","title":"Dividing the Public; School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity (Hardback) 9781501773259","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDividing the Public\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSchool Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew Gardner Kelly (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501773259\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 7 maps, 1 chart, 1 graph - 1 Graphs - 7 Maps - 1 Charts\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize from The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and awarded with Honorable Mention in the Outstanding Book Award by the History of Education Society; and Honorable Mention in the New Scholar's Book Award from AERA's Division F. Winner of the Society of Professors of Education 2025 Outstanding Book Award.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDividing the Public\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and economic disparities that characterize public education funding in the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e With California as his focus, Kelly illustrates that the use of local taxes to fund public education was never an inadvertent or de facto product of past practices, but an intentional decision adopted in place of well-known alternatives during the Progressive Era, against past precedent and principle in several states.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom efforts to convert expropriated Indigenous and Mexican land into common school funding in the 1850s, to reforms that directed state aid to expanding white suburbs during the years surrounding World War II, \u003ci\u003eDividing the Public\u003c\/i\u003e traces, in intricate detail, how a host of policies connected to school funding have divided California by race and class over time. In bringing into view the neglected and poorly understood history of policymaking connected to school finance, Kelly offers a new story about the role public education played in shaping the racially segregated, economically divided, and politically fragmented world of the post-1945 metropolis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Narratives of State Innocence and the History of School Finance\u003cbr\u003e 1. Funding for Education, Settler Colonialism, and the\"California Experiment\" in Common School Centralization,1848–1865\u003cbr\u003e 2. Race, Space, and Property Values: Buying and Selling Schools in aWestern State\u003cbr\u003e 3. Finance Reform and the Contested Meaning of \"Public\" in the1870s and 1880s\u003cbr\u003e 4. State-Sponsored Inequalities, Boosterism, and the Race forProgressive Era School Reform, 1890-1910\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Rise of the District Property Tax, Educational Expertise, andRationalized Inequality, 1910–1928\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Art of Addressing Inequality While Expanding It, 1928- 1950\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Inequity Triumphant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608205816088,"sku":"9781501773259","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dividing-the-public-school-finance-and-the-creation-of-structural-inequity-hardback-9781501773259","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}