CHAPTER ONE. Introduction 1
CHAPTER TWO. The Market and the Urban Public School System 30
CHAPTER THREE. Urban Systems as Competitors 53
CHAPTER FOUR. Milwaukee, 1989-1995: Prologue 72
CHAPTER FIVE. Milwaukee, 1995-99: Hints of the Pickax 107
CHAPTER SIX. Cleveland, 1995-99: Muffled by the Din 137
CHAPTER SEVEN. Edgewood, 1998-2000: An Outside Invasion 167
CHAPTER EIGHT. A Political Market 197
CHAPTER NINE. You Say You Want a Revolution? 219
References 243
Index 261