Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education)

In 1981, Liverpool Council ordered the closure of Croxteth Comprehensive School because of falling rolls. The local residents protested, and when this failed occupied the school and for a year ran it themselves with the help of volunteer teachers. Phil Carspecken was one of those volunteers, and this book, first published in 1991, tells the stor