The Manchester City Library invites you to an informative author talk and discussion on school funding with author Andru Volinsky on Saturday, September 6^th at 12pm in the Auditorium. In The Last Bake Sale, Volinsky discusses the struggles many schools face with a lack of funding, teacher layoffs, and attacks on public education.

As the lead lawyer in the Claremont, New Hampshire, school funding case, Volinsky waged a twenty-year battle to make access to education fairer for all children in the state, not just the wealthy, white, and privileged. Volinsky offers not just a history of how we got here at the state and national level, but also how to find a better path forward.

Copies of The Last Bake Sale will be available to purchase at the event, cash or check preferred.

For questions, call Caitlin at 603-624-6550 x7620 or email cdionne@manchesternh.gov

Andru Volinsky will talk about his book "The Last Bake Sale: The Fight for Fair School Funding".

As the lead lawyer in the Claremont, New Hampshire, school funding case, Volinsky waged a twenty-year battle to make access to education fairer for all children in the state, not just the wealthy, white, and privileged. Volinsky offers not just a history of how we got here at the state and national level, but also how to find a better path forward.

Change can happen, and The Last Bake Sale shows us how.

• A behind-the-scenes glimpse of the considerable legal efforts mounted to improve one state’s school finance system

• Ties in decades of U.S. legal and political history involving public education from Brown vs. the Board of Education to the current moment.

• Public education as a cornerstone of democracy