Tax the Rich: Teachers\u27 Long Campaign to Fund Public Schools

Why did teachers’ long campaign to fund schools with progressive income taxes on the rich fall short? Labor-liberals hoped to equalize opportunity for students by shifting school taxes from local communities like Detroit and Los Angeles to the states. Businessmen and conservatives instead centralized cuts by changing how budget decisions are made, imposing constitutional limits to slow the growth rate of state government. Tax limits are distinct from tax cuts. Tax the Rich builds on the established literature about the grassroots politics of education, and moves in new directions by centering the agency of organized interests—teachers unions, business associations, and farmers organizations—powerful enough to build enduring coalitions and to structure fiscal options. The story begins in 1930, when the Great Depression turned farmers against the property tax, recast business boosters as tax limiters, and forced teachers to defend school finance; it ends in 1980, when tax revolts went national with former California governor Ronald Reagan’s election as president. Michigan and California, laboratories for tax limitation campaigns and educational court cases, are the reference points. After property owners defaulted on their local taxes in the early 1930s, and later voted down renewals and increases during the 1960s, liberal and labor organizers searched for alternative taxes based on ability to pay while conservative and business operatives persuaded voters to constitutionally tie legislators’ purse strings. Paying for education in a democracy at times requires antidemocratic decisions, on left and right, by labor and business. Tax the Rich argues resources never matched Americans’ ambitions to make schools the hidden welfare state

MSS0445. Benjamin Lawson Hooks papers finding aid

The collection comprises correspondence, memoranda, speeches, newspaper columns, articles, subject files, reports, minutes, board and administrative material, printed materials, photographs, audio and video recordings, and other materials regarding the career of Benjamin Lawson Hooks (1925-2010): lawyer, minister, Federal Communications Commissioner and Executive Director of the NAACP

Movements and distribution of adult Lake Sturgeon from their spawning site in the St. Clair River, Michigan

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Great Lakes Research Review 2000

Several years ago, staff from the Great Lakes Program, the Great Lakes Research Consortium, and New York Sea Grant realized an information gap existed between peer reviewed journal articles and newsletter type information related to Great Lakes research. The Great Lakes Research Review was created to fill that gap by offering a substantive overview of research being conducted throughout the basin. This publication is designed to inform researchers, policy-makers, educators, managers, and stakeholders about Great Lakes research efforts

A Selected Bibliography of Topics on Employment Practices

Cornell University is currently funded by the U.S. Department of Education National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research for a four-year Research and Demonstration entitled Improving Employment Practices Covered by Title I of the ADA (Grant # H133A70005). As a part of these efforts, we have done an extensive literature review on topics related to employer practices and the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This bibliography is the result of these eighteen months of efforts. This publication is available as a print product, and is accessible online at http://www.ilr.cornell.edu. We hope that these resources will be of assistance in helping human resource professionals, employers, providers of vocational rehabilitation services, advocacy organizations, and persons with disabilities and their family members to better employ the ADA in effectively implementing the accommodation process

Air Force Institute of Technology Research Report 2009

This report summarizes the research activities of the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management. It describes research interests and faculty expertise; lists student theses/dissertations; identifies research sponsors and contributions; and outlines the procedures for contacting the school. Included in the report are: faculty publications, conference presentations, consultations, and funded research projects. Research was conducted in the areas of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electro-Optics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Systems and Engineering Management, Operational Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics and Engineering Physics