Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen will soon have a chance to get their paws on an Administration bill to pass out $300,000,000 to the nation's public schools. Although supporters of this aid to education are reasonably confident that the House and Senate will agree with the measure, they are also understandably nervous. For the last 30 years, the national legislature has consistently batted down so-called "general-aid" education bills, although it has approved such specific programs as land-grant colleges and funds for vocational training...
...Federal aid to education is long overdue. The $300,000,000 for this year will just be a beginning towards reviving an educational system that is in notoriously shaky shape. In Detroit, for example, rat catchers and garbage collectors get paid more than school teachers. In the South, which is financially less vigorous than Detroit, many teachers are paid starvation wages, and school buildings make Harvard Hall look like Lamont's Poetry Room...
...only does the measure guard the sanctity of state boundaries, but it protects such local customs as segregated education (in the South), and state aid to parochial schools (wherever it exists). Any attempt to question the merit of these two traditions would, of course, cause a conflagration in Congress and probably kill the present bill forthwith. That is definitely not the object of supporters of federal aid to education. They rightly figure that if compromise will get some money into the public school system, then compromise is currently the ticket for them...
Even though a concentrator is not interested in this mathematical phase of Economics, Mathematics 1a, while far from necessary, will be of definite aid in comprehending certain problems in theory and in money and finance...
...does--that the CVA would be "state socialism." But the charge of "socialism" alone doesn't frighten so many people in 1949 as it did in 1933, when the first Valley project was getting under way. The question is whether the Northwest needs this form of government aid or not. And when the plush opponents of CVA claim that the Northwest is doing fine as it is, they are unfortunately in error...