TY - BOOK ID - 77868651 TI - A level playing field : school finance in the Northeast PY - 2007 SN - 0791480895 1429458011 9781429458016 9780791480892 079146931X 0791469328 9780791469316 9780791469323 PB - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Public schools KW - Common schools KW - Grammar schools KW - School funds KW - Secondary schools KW - Schools KW - Finance. KW - Education KW - States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868651 AB - In this timely work, Jane Fowler Morse reviews the history of school finance litigation in the United States and then examines recent legal and political struggles to obtain equitable school funding in New York, Vermont, and Ontario. These three places have employed strikingly different strategies to address this issue, and Morse analyzes lessons learned at each that will benefit both public officials and citizens interested in seeking reform elsewhere. Drawing on writers from Aristotle to Cass Sunstein and Martin Luther King Jr., she also explores the concepts of social justice and equity, highlighting the connections between racism, poverty, and school funding. The result is a passionate plea for equitable funding of public education nationwide to instantiate the ideal of "liberty and justice for all." ER -