Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Continuing a hard-line stance against proposals for a tax increase, lawmakers defeated by an 82-72 vote a $31 million proposal for Equal Educational Opportunity (EEO) grants...
...House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea), the architect of the proposed $12.3 billion spending plan said he opposed the grant increase because it "guarantees that [lawmakers] will have to vote for a tax increase...
...Michael S. Dukakis proposed $139 million in EEO funding. His $12.9 billion budget has been brushed aside by the House because it relies on a massive tax hike...
...quite. Critics say the policy is racist and unfair, encouraging the most motivated parents and students to take their talents and tax dollars out of inner-city schools, which are predominantly African American and Hispanic. The hemorrhage leaves these schools with the neediest students and fewer resources with which to help them...
Minnesota, which has a small minority population, started the nation's first statewide open-enrollment plan this school year. So far, 435 students have transferred out of their home districts, taking $2,755 per pupil in state-tax revenues to their new destinations. More than 2,500 others have applied to cross district lines starting in September. In racially divided Massachusetts, however, a similar proposal has run into strong opposition from minority groups. Magnet schools often fare better. Since 1974, such facilities in East Harlem have lured thousands of students into the district and boosted its rank in reading scores...