Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in American Education (Hardcover)

List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Series Foreword Preface Chapter 1 Freedom Setting the Parameters Freedom to Choose The Federalist State Welfare State Contradiction Conservatism The Color of American Politics Plan of the Book Chapter 2 Tuition Grants The Legislative Backlash to Brown The 1960 School Crisis The Ninth Ward Elementary School Spread of Tuition Grants Legal Defense of Tuition Grants From Tuition Grants to Segregated Academies Chapter 3 Detour Right Turn at the Office of Economic Opportunity The Friedmanite Voucher The New Hampshire Context Yankee Democracy Aftermath of New Hampshire Vouchers Chapter 4 The Urban School Crisis Reverend Virgil Blum's Vouchers Crusade Public and Private Education in Milwaukee Responses to School Desegregation Independent Community Schools Black Political Power in Milwaukee Governor Tommy Thompson The Bradley Foundation Vouchers Come to Milwaukee Polly Williams and the Parental Choice Debate Chapter 5 The Church in the City Depression-era Vouchers Cleveland's Urban School Crisis School Desegregation and Resegregation Statehouse and City Hall Politics Cleveland Voucher Supporters The Church in the City The Governor and the Entrepreneur The Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program Chapter 6 Fixing School Vouchers The Legal Challenges School Vouchers in Perspective Prospects for School Vouchers Notes Bibliography Index