{"product_id":"dividing-the-public-9781501773266","title":"Dividing the Public","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\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,\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409376289111,"sku":"9781501773266","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501773266.jpg?v=1730506590","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dividing-the-public-9781501773266","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}