Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform
Michael Paris
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Description for Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform
Paperback. This book reveals the important role lawyers, law, and courts play in struggles over educational resources, especially when it comes to the translation of policy goals into legal claims. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 1KBBSK; LNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
In the struggle to ensure that schools receive their fair share of financial and educational resources, reformers translate policy goals into legal claims in a number of different ways. This enlightening new work uncovers the options reformers have in framing legal challenges and how the choices they make affect politics and policy beyond the courtroom.
Focusing on two of the most controversial and far-reaching court decisions in the nation in school finance and education reform, Framing Equal Opportunity follows lawyers and activists in New Jersey and Kentucky as they negotiate the complicated political terrain of educational change in their ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804763547
SKU
V9780804763547
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99-50
About Michael Paris
Michael Paris is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
Reviews for Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform
"[T]his is an excellent book. It introduces and advances an important theoretical concept into the broader debate about social movements, courts, and policy change . . . It should be of interest outside of the law and courts audience and will appeal to those who are more interested in education, social movements, and state and local politics." —David Glick, Rockefeller ... Read more