I think that this is an important book in terms of understanding racially organized funding inequity in the American public school system. It is an emotionally powerful and heartwrenching critique of the way schools are funded and many poor urban children are robbed of a basic American right. Unfortunately it neglects similar inequities in poor rural communities and the book is poorly organized. I felt lucky that he bothered to organize it generally by geograhic region because most of the time it felt like he just wrote down whatever was in his head as he thought of it without any concern on how to lay out the material in a fashion that could be easily followed and comprehended.