New PDF release: The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?

By Dale Russakoff

Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker have been able to reform our failing colleges. They obtained an education.When Mark Zuckerberg introduced to a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to remodel the downtrodden colleges of Newark, New Jersey, then mayor Cory Booker and Governor Chris Christie have been beside him, vowing to aid make Newark "a image of academic excellence for the entire nation." yet their plans quickly bumped into the city's pro schooling gamers, fierce protectors in their billion-dollar-a-year procedure. It's a prize that, for generations, has enriched possible every person, other than Newark's kids.
Dale Russakoff offers a riveting drama of our occasions, encompassing the increase of big name politics, enormous philanthropy, severe monetary inequality, the constitution institution flow, and the struggles and triumphs of faculties in a single of the nation's poorest towns. As Cory Booker navigates among his prestige as "rock superstar mayor" on Oprah's degree and item of substantial mistrust at domestic, the tumultuous adjustments deliberate by means of reformers and their hugely paid experts spark a fiery grass-roots competition stoked by means of neighborhood politicians and union leaders. the expansion of charters forces the hand of Newark's university superintendent Cami Anderson, who closes, consolidates, or redesigns greater than a 3rd of the city's schools—a situation at the horizon for lots of city districts throughout the United States.
Russakoff offers a close-up view of twenty-six-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse as they choose to supply the giant amount of money to Newark after which event an schooling in their personal amid the fallout of the reforms. such a lot relocating are Russakoff's photographs from within school rooms, as homegrown lecturers and principals conflict heroically to arrive scholars broken by way of severe poverty and violence.
The Prize is an soaking up portrait of a tremendous fight, essential for a person who cares concerning the way forward for public schooling and the nation's youngsters.

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83 The state was directed to assess the special needs of at-risk children and to develop a plan to address them, including the redeployment of state education aid. 84 The second strand of adequacy as “equity plus” can be seen in the state court decisions requiring state governments to devote more money to education statewide, not just in the property-poorest districts. The prime exemplar of this version of adequacy as “equity plus” is the Kentucky Supreme Court’s Rose decision. 86 The court found that education in Kentucky overall was marked by low effort and low achievement—in per-pupil expenditures, teacher salaries, graduation rates, and scores on achievement tests.

Some courts treat claims based on state constitutions’ equal protection and education clauses as involving distinct legal arguments and analyze them separately. Moreover, a significant number of courts have reached different results based on equality and adequacy theories. 40 Nonetheless, although some state supreme courts found for plaintiffs on equal protection grounds without considering an adequacy claim (or found for plaintiffs on adequacy grounds without considering equality), there do not appear to be any courts that combined rejection of an adequacy attack with validation of an equality challenge.

Moreover, the Wisconsin court’s conception of adequacy was strikingly limited. ”51 Three factors seem to characterize this first set of adequacy cases. First, as exemplified by the Wisconsin decision, they typically adopt a fairly limited definition of what constitutes an adequate education. 52 Second, they may restrict the scope of the constitutional adequacy requirement. 53 Third, these cases rarely involve a full judicial investigation of the adequacy of the education actually offered. Adequacy is generally inferred from the amount of state money devoted to education or from the existence of state standards, or adequacy is deemed to be conceded by the plaintiffs.

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