In the struggle to ensure that schools receive their fair share of financial and educational resources, reformers translate policy goals into legal claims in a number of different ways. This enlightening new work uncovers the options reformers have in framing legal challenges and how the choices they make affect politics and policy beyond the courtroom. Focusing on two of the most controversial and far-reaching court decisions in the nation in school finance and education reform,Framing Equal Opportunityfollows lawyers and activists in New Jersey and Kentucky as they negotiate the complicated political terrain of educational change in their respective states. Unlike other books on law and reform, this work emphasizes the importance of legal translationthe process through which reformers transform their visions and goals into plausible legal claims. As it reveals, the kinds of arguments lawyers choose to make matter not only to their success in the courtroom, but also to the nature of the political fights they face in the community at large.

Michael Paris is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Introduction	p. 1
Ideologies In Translation
Legal Mobilization Theory and Legal Translation: Old Territory and New Frontiers	p. 13
School Finance Reform and Educational Ideology: A Guide to Law, Politics, and Policy	p. 35
Savage Iinequalities In Law and Politics
Egatitarianism Made Legal: From Robinson to Abbott	p. 61
The Fruits of Their Labors: The Compensatory Vision Ascendant	p. 93
From Legalism to Political Engagement: Backlash, Perseverance, and a Culture of Argument (Without End)	p. 125
The Common School and The Quest For Consensus
The Common School in law and Politics: The Democratic Road to Rose v. Council for Better Education	p. 165
Rose v. Council for Better Education: Kentucky's Brown v. Board	p. 191
Conclusion
Conclusion	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 237
Abbreviations	p. 241
Notes	p. 243
References	p. 283
Index	p. 315
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