The Last Bake Sale: The Fight for Fair School Funding, with author Andru Volinsky

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Andru Volinsky, lead lawyer in the Claremont, NH, school funding case, in conversation with Becky Rule (author and television host of NHPBS 'Our Hometown') join together at Gibson's Bookstore to discuss Volinsky's new book, The Last Bake Sale: The Fight for Fair School Funding. This is the story of how we treat our children. Why is education funding in America so unequal? As the lead lawyer in the Claremont, NH, school funding case, Volinsky offers a better path forward. Combining litigation with public engagement and direct political action to change public policy on education and advance the public good. Change can happen, and The Last Bake Sale shows us how. • A behind-the-scenes glimpse of the considerable legal efforts mounted to improve one state’s school finance system • Ties in decades of U.S. legal and political history involving public education from Brown vs. the Board of Education to the current moment. • Public education as a cornerstone of democracy