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

by Deborah Yaffe

Book Overview

Winner of the 2008 NJ Studies Academic Alliance author's award for an outstanding non-fiction work about New Jersey

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. That year, Abbott became the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action lawsuit demanding that the state provide equal funding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813542057
• ISBN13: 9780813542058
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Rivergate Books
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"