Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom confined to inboard power boats. The big schooners of yesteryear are down to a handful, but they have been replaced many times over by 35-and 45-ft. yawls and ketches, better suited to an age dominated by the income tax and the high cost of other people's labor. Harbors from Maine to California swarm with new thousands of prams, skiffs and small sailing craft. Lumped under the heading of non-powered boats, such craft increased from...
...control of the seven-man school board, and nothing but penny-pinching grief has resulted since. The Aldine district (pop. 45,000) has had three school superintendents in two years, turned over 9% of its students to Houston to save money. Last summer the board cut the proposed school tax from $1.58 per $100 property assessment to $1.35. Result: the town's twelve schools (9,000 students) temporarily lost accreditation: after their paychecks stopped last month. Aldine's teachers quit their jobs and the schools shut down entirely...
...that, even the board had misgivings, got special permission from the state legislature to raise $200,000 by selling short-term warrants to its Houston bank. As citizens cheered, the board voted to reopen the schools and even to boost the tax rate next fiscal year to $1.75. But trouble was far from over: the bank flatly refused to buy Aldine's warrants, and the schools stayed closed...
Roman Catholics have the fastest-growing educational system in the country. Catholic grade and high schools have nearly quadrupled in 50 years to 4,700,100 students-one out of every eight U.S. school children. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, forbids direct aid to church schools. Meanwhile. Catholic parents (as well as Protestant and Jewish parents who send their children to church schools) are taxed for public schools while their own growing schools need money. What should...
Open Mind. Much of the discussion concerned the basic question of what role religion should play in tax-supported schools. Nobody was entirely satisfied with religious "lessons" by secular teachers. Rabbi Gordis decried handing over the work of church and home to public schools, which might develop a "religion-by-rote." Agnostic Lekachman agreed: "I consider religion to be much too important in human history to see it reduced to a patriotic exercise in the classroom...