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Going Up the River of Shame

The Struggle for Education Justice in South Carolina

By: Thomas E. Truitt

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Going Up the River of Shame

The Struggle for Education Justice in South Carolina

By: Thomas E. Truitt

On a steamy August day in 1993, the Pee Dee Education Center held its monthly meeting in the long, narrow board room on the second floor of the building located on Dargan Street in downtown Florence. On that day, eighteen of the nineteen member superintendents voted to sue the state of South Carolina. As they took this action, the superintendents were not aware they were becoming a part of a state-by-state national movement, a movement that would challenge state governments to provide a higher level of education for each state's poorest students. The South Carolinians only knew they were struggling to offer students in their districts the kind of education the students needed to break out of the cycle of poverty in which most of them were trapped. This book is the story of how the Pee Dee superintendents brought the suit against the state, risking their reputations and livelihoods to stand up for poor children in their districts. It's also the story of a state's unwillingness to address the educational needs of its children. Part I of the book traces the development of school finance suits in the country with special emphasis on New Jersey, Kentucky, and Ohio. Part II describes the South Carolina trial, including testimonies of the eight plaintiff superintendents and other key witnesses. Part III includes the court decision in the South Carolina case, a comparison of that decision with those in New Jersey, Kentucky, and Ohio and a more detailed comparison of the South Carolina case with its neighbor, North Carolina.

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1438939450

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9781438939452

Brick Walls

Reflections on Race in a Southern School District

By: Thomas E. Truitt

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Brick Walls

Reflections on Race in a Southern School District

By: Thomas E. Truitt

In 1987, when veteran school administrator Thomas E. Truitt took the post of district superintendent in Florence, South Carolina, he assumed leadership of a public school system in denial of its racial disharmony. More than three decades after Brown v. Board of Education, Florence District One had never accomplished an integration plan that met federal approval; rather the district had skirted the intent of the federal mandate by employing freedom of choice and traditional attendance zones. In the 1990s, a single issue - the need to replace an aging, predominantly black elementary school - brought to the fore the local population's anguished attitudes about race and education. Brick Walls and Other Barriers recounts in wrenching detail how legacies of discrimination and injustice combined to divide a community along racial lines. Truitt takes readers into the complex inner workings of a modern school system, detailing the relationships between school boards and professional administrators to which few parents or citizens are privy.

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188

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570036381

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9781570036385

Letters of Thomas E. Thomas

By: Thomas E. Thomas

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Letters of Thomas E. Thomas

By: Thomas E. Thomas

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172

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Wentworth Press

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0526974427

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9780526974429

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Going Up the River of Shame

Going Up the River of Shame

Brick Walls

Brick Walls

Letters of Thomas E. Thomas

Letters of Thomas E. Thomas

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