EARLY ON in Michael Fabricant’s Organizing for Educational Justice: The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx, one of the residents of South Bronx Community School District 9 explains her decision to become involved in a school reform movement within her neighborhood: “[S]o many kids in our community are denied what they rightfully deserve. Why should they get the worst of everything? Why should they get the teachers who are least skilled? Why? They deserve better than that. I want them to be educated. Hispanic and black kids have been ignored.” The resident in question, Ocynthia Williams, holds down a thirty-five-hour workweek and pursues a bachelor’s degree in the evenings; furthermore, none of her four children are enrolled in District 9 schools. Yet Williams’ commitment is unshakeable: “We need to try everything that can possibly make a difference,” she states…