Word: taxingly
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...systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when the issue is framed as a matter of tax dollars subsidizing private-school tuitions. That finding is supported by a recent TIME/CNN poll that posed the question that way; support for vouchers was just 40% among whites and 36% among blacks...
...Arts awarded government grants. The most famous of the performers, Karen Finley, thrilled audiences by coating herself in chocolate and doing highly inventive autoerotic exercises with sweet potatoes. Some members of Congress, worried perhaps about the inevitable outcry from the tuber-rights community, deemed this an unworthy expenditure of tax dollars. The grants were rescinded--and a cause was born. The martyrs came ready-made, as did the name with the capitalized numeral Four, lending their cause a portentous...
...public schools, 9.5% to low-tuition private schools (mostly Catholic) and only 1.5% to private schools with tuition of more than $5,000 a year. The higher-education population is about four-fifths public and one-fifth private. All public school students have their education financed through the tax system, and all of them are subject to at least some central rules (like a ban on enforced racial segregation) that are imposed as a condition of the government funding...
There was a time when liberals, at least, believed that the way to fix bad local schools, especially in poor areas with low tax bases, was to give them federal money. In 1965 Congress passed, in a spirit of great hope, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which for the first time created a federal program (now known as Title I) to fund local schools. The program is still going, but the overall cause lost a lot of momentum when a big government study came out in 1966 contending that student achievement is not very closely related to school spending...
...firm. The 200 or so pages were delivered late Friday to Senator Fred Thompson's committee investigating 1996 campaign-finance abuses; more are expected this week. They include notes of meetings and strategy memos dealing with the Christian Coalition, the Americans for Tax Reform, the National Right to Life Committee and Haley Barbour's National Policy Forum. Dole lawyers deny the papers show anything improper or were intentionally withheld...