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Community Schooling and the Nature of Power

The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive
By:Phil Francis Carspecken
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9781138244429
eText ISBN:9781000639605
Edition:1
Copyright:1991
Format:Reflowable

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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