The last bake sale : the fight for fair school funding / Andru Volinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volinsky, Andru, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--New Hampshire--Finance.

Education.

Public schools--New Hampshire--Finance.

Public schools.

Education--Finance--Law and legislation--New Hampshire--Cases.

Educational equalization--New Hampshire.

Educational equalization.

Education and state--New Hampshire.

Education and state.

Government aid to education--New Hampshire.

Government aid to education.

School taxes--New Hampshire.

School taxes.

Public schools--United States--Finance.

Education--Finance--Law and legislation--United States--Cases.

Educational equalization--United States.

School taxes--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2025.

Summary:

"'During this time of attacks on public education, teacher layoffs and funding crises, it's crucial to understand why some schools struggle for lack of resources while others flourish. Why is education funding in America so embattled and so unequal? In 'The Last Bake Sale', Andru Volinsky tells this story as no one else can, using New Hampshire as the example of the most unfair and regressive state in the nation in terms of how it funds its schools. In New Hampshire, taxpayers in the state's poorest communities pay the highest education taxes yet raise the lowest revenues for their kids' schools. As the lead lawyer in the Claremont, New Hampshire, school funding case, Volinsky waged a twenty-year battle to make access to education fairer for all children in the state, not just the wealthy, white, and privileged. Volinsky offers not just a history of how we got here at the state and national level, but also how to find a better path forward. Combining litigation with public engagement and direct political action (including holding office) is our best hope to change public policy on education and advance the public good. Change can happen, and 'The Last Bake Sale' shows us how."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents

Introduction

Part One: Why a National Movement Became Necessary

Chapter 1: Plessy to Brown The End of Legal Segregation

Chapter 2: Brown to San Antonio Desegregation Runs into a Roadblock

Chapter 3: The Beginning of a Movement to Fairly Fun Public Schools

Part Two: New Hampshire's Experience

Chapter 4: The Education System Challenged in the Claremont Suit

Chapter 5: Building the Claremont Case

Chapter 6: We'd Come So Far

Chapter 7: The Trial

Chapter 8: Is Education a Fundamental Right?

Chapter 9: The Democratic Governor Responds

Part Three: Present Day and the Future of Education

Chapter 10: Don't Make a Fuss

Chapter 11: Politics, Learning the Wrong Lessons, and Some Successes

Chapter 12: Funding Solutions

Endnotes

Index

Acknowledgments

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Print version: Volinsky, Andru The Last Bake Sale

ISBN:

9781942155911

OCLC:

1507695267