Other People's Children

Author: Deborah Yaffe
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B001HBI6H0

Other People's Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey's Schools

In 1981, when Raymond Abbott was a twelve-year-old sixth-grader in Camden, New Jersey, poor city school districts like his spent 25 percent less per student than the state's wealthy suburbs did. Download Other People's Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey's Schools from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. That year, Abbott became the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action lawsuit demanding that the state provide equal funding for rich and poor schools. Over the next twenty-five years, as the non-profit law firm representing the plaintiffs won ruling after ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court, Abbott dropped out of school, fought a cocaine addiction, and spent time in prison before turning his life around.Raymond Abbott's is just one of the many human stories that have too often been forgotten in the policy battles New Jersey has waged for two generations Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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