Matthew Gardner Kelly

Dividing the Public (eBook, ePUB)

School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

From 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, Dividing the Public 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501773280
• Artikelnr.: 69427830

Autorenporträt

Matthew Gardner Kelly is Assistant Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University. Follow him on X @MGardnerKelly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Narratives of State Innocence and the History of School
Finance
1. Funding for Education, Settler Colonialism, and the"California
Experiment" in Common School Centralization,1848-1865
2. Race, Space, and Property Values: Buying and Selling Schools in aWestern
State
3. Finance Reform and the Contested Meaning of "Public" in the1870s and
1880s
4. State-Sponsored Inequalities, Boosterism, and the Race forProgressive
Era School Reform, 1890-1910
5. The Rise of the District Property Tax, Educational Expertise,
andRationalized Inequality, 1910-1928
6. The Art of Addressing Inequality While Expanding It, 1928- 1950
Epilogue: Inequity Triumphant