Educational Conflict in the Sunshine State: The Story of the 1968 Statewide Teacher Walkout in Florida

by Don Cameron

Book Overview

In the state of Florida in the 1960s, the tension between the costs of funding a quality education program and the taxes required to do so exploded into a confrontation between the state's teachers and the Florida power structure. For a century or more, the state had been determined to keep taxes--all taxes--as low as possible. In that context, Florida's education system atrophied to the point that educators felt they could no longer continue to ignore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578869439
• ISBN13: 9781578869435
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: R & L Education
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.7"