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Break these chains : the battle for school choice

Title
Break these chains : the battle for school choice / Daniel McGroarty.
Author
McGroarty, Daniel.
Publication
Rocklin, CA : Forum, ©1996.

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Description
xxi, 258 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • Frustrated and angry that their children are not getting the solid education their tax dollars should provide, parents everywhere have lost faith in the public school system. A testimony to this frustration, low-income parents in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, seized their district's school choice initiative and used it to renounce public education, demanding the right to send their children to successful schools where learning counts. School choice offers parents an alternative to public schools - hope for those trapped in a system that refuses to change. This is the story of the inner-city parents who took advantage of that alternative, despite relentless opposition from school boards, teachers' unions, local politicians, even the NAACP.
  • In Break These Chains, author Daniel McGroarty gives a blow-by-blow, heart-wrenching account of what happens when low-income parents fight institutionalized poverty - and win. It is also a stunning illustration in microcosm of how school choice can dramatically improve the education of children in America.
Subject
  • School choice > United States > Case studies
  • Educational vouchers > United States > Case studies
  • School choice > Wisconsin > Milwaukee
  • Educational vouchers > Wisconsin > Milwaukee
  • Educational vouchers
  • School choice
  • Schulwahl
  • United States
  • Wisconsin > Milwaukee
  • Milwaukee, Wis
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Note
  • "Published in association with ICS Press."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-245) and index.
Contents
1. The education plantation. Room 207 -- Autopsy report -- The lessons of urban day. 2. Emancipation. White lies -- The empire strikes back -- Davis V. Grover. 3. Church, state, and choice. The battle of Sister Leonius -- The inquisition v. Brother Bob -- Constitutional daylight. 4. Report card. Accentuate the negative -- Eliminate the positive.
ISBN
  • 0761505075
  • 9780761505075
LCCN
96000280
OCLC
  • ocm34149921
  • 34149921
  • SCSB-8902022
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library