Dividing the Public : School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity

In Dividing the Public, Matthew Gardner Kelly analyzes how district property taxation won against alternative approaches to education funding during the early years of American public education. He argues that only when historians take seriously the history of school funding in western states such as California can we see the full scope of how decisions about district property taxation have been rooted in deep divisions over the relationship between education, wealth, and opportunity throughout the United States.--

• | Author: Matthew Gardner Kelly
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501773267
• | ISBN-13: 9781501773266