Assistance to States and Territories in Providing Programs of Public Education: Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 419 a Bill to Promote the General Welfare Through the Appropriation of Funds to Assist the States and Territories in Providing More Effective Programs of Public Education |
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... capita taxpaying ability of the States compared with Federal income tax , income and real - estate values Taxes , debts , bonded indebtedness , and expenditures of com- bined State and local Governments for 1930__ Percentage of total ...
... capita taxpaying ability of the States compared with Federal income tax , income and real - estate values Taxes , debts , bonded indebtedness , and expenditures of com- bined State and local Governments for 1930__ Percentage of total ...
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... capita 5 to 20 years old ] States and Territories Population 5 to 20 years , in- clusive Allotment , first year Allotment , second year Allotment , third year Allotment , fourth year Allotment , fifth year and there- after 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
... capita 5 to 20 years old ] States and Territories Population 5 to 20 years , in- clusive Allotment , first year Allotment , second year Allotment , third year Allotment , fourth year Allotment , fifth year and there- after 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
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... capita , in the State of Mississippi that shows $ 74 , and in New York , approximately $ 380 . The CHAIRMAN . Then that is based on income ? Mr. DAWSON . Nobody thinks , I believe , that the people of Missis- sippi just spend $ 74 ...
... capita , in the State of Mississippi that shows $ 74 , and in New York , approximately $ 380 . The CHAIRMAN . Then that is based on income ? Mr. DAWSON . Nobody thinks , I believe , that the people of Missis- sippi just spend $ 74 ...
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... capita taxes as the poorest States , and the 12 richest States can raise twice as much taxes per capita as the 12 poorest States . So if every one of these so - called backward States should put its house in order and levy every tax ...
... capita taxes as the poorest States , and the 12 richest States can raise twice as much taxes per capita as the 12 poorest States . So if every one of these so - called backward States should put its house in order and levy every tax ...
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... capita tax - paying ability of at least six times that of the poorest State . The 12 States most able to pay taxes for the support of education have approximately three times as much ability to support a given program of education as ...
... capita tax - paying ability of at least six times that of the poorest State . The 12 States most able to pay taxes for the support of education have approximately three times as much ability to support a given program of education as ...
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Page 108 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Page 52 - Education can be made a force to equalize the condition of men. It is no less true that it may be a force to create class, race, and sectional distinctions. The evidence indicates clearly that the schools of the United States, which have hitherto been regarded as the bulwark of democracy, may in fact become an instrument for creating those very inequalities they were designed to prevent.
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