edited by Sandra Vergari
July 2002
This excellent new reader on charter schools, edited by SUNY/Albany professor Sandra Vergari, explores numerous aspects of charter schools, particularly as they operate in individual states, and serves as a fine overview of the topic. Vergari wrote three of the fourteen chapters. The others were prepared by a mix of well-known scholars and new faces. Most consist of state-specific case studies (Minnesota, Arizona, California, Michigan, Colorado, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, New York and the Canadian province of Alberta), though these have different emphases and reach different conclusions. The editor???s concluding chapter is balanced, thoughtful and perceptive. A worthy addition to the libraries of charter aficionados and policy types, it is published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The ISBN is 0822941805. You can get more information at http://www.pitt.edu/~press/2002/vergari.html.
