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oapen-20.500.12657-851332024-01-15T00:00:00Z Dividing the Public Kelly, Matthew Gardner education funding, financial inequality, local property tax, schooling resource disparities, tax in districts, educational policy, finance history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNK Organization & management of education::JNKG Funding of education & student finance bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFJ Social discrimination & inequality 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. 2023-11-15T13:10:23Z 2023-11-15T13:10:23Z 2024 book 9781501773266 9781501773280 9781501773259 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85133 eng Histories of American Education application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781501773273.pdf http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773259/dividing-the-public Cornell University Press 10.7298/1exm-kp71 10.7298/1exm-kp71 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 9781501773266 9781501773280 9781501773259 271 open access
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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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