EXCERPTS FROM
OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
The Plaintiffs and Their Families
Introduction: The Inheritance

Part I     The Beginning: Robinson v. Cahill,1970-76
1          Jersey City’s Tax War
2          Celebrating the Bicentennial

Part II    The Crusade: Abbott v. Burke, 1979-98
3          The True Believer
4          Son of Robinson
5          The Families
6          “The System is Broken”                                              
7          The Twenty-One/Forty-One Rule
8          The Children of Abbott
9          A Constitutional Right to AstroTurf

Part III   The Never-Ending Story: Implementing Abbott, 1998-2006
10        “We Do Not Run School Systems”
11        The Children Grow Up

Conclusion: Other People’s Children
Notes
Works Cited
Index