Community resistance to school privatization: The case of New York city

The People Shall Rule: Acorn, Community Organizing, and the Struggle For Economic Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 180-205

  Scott, Janelle ^a   Fruchter, Norm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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