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School officials insist that the racial data are just one small element in a comprehensive plan to help Cincinnati teachers deal with discipline problems. "It is a time-honored method of enforcing civil rights laws to keep statistics," says William Taylor, another attorney for the plaintiffs. "There is no reason to believe that the information will be misused." Brandt says "an administrator needs good info." He has a point. Even assuming that teachers are justified in sending twice as many blacks as whites to the assistant principal -- nationwide, black students are disciplined in disproportionate numbers -- what about the teacher...
Back in the 1640s, when the current method of financing public schools was developed, if a man had money, he put it into his land. There were no IRAs or Social Security. With property the best gauge of wealth, it made sense to pay for public schooling out of property taxes. Nor did anyone wonder about the wisdom of yoking schools to local real estate values; if nothing else, taxpayers knew exactly how their money was being spent...
...proposed to do away with education-funding property taxes without naming any alternative revenue source. To the applause of some onlookers and the horror of others, Engler took them up on it, promising to find some way to make up the money. Until the vote last week affirmed his method, the possibility loomed that public education in Michigan, penniless, might screech to a halt -- along with Engler's political career...
...such desperate straits, Engler's radical solution became attractive. After the vote last week, Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, declared, "One thing is clear. A more equitable and stable method of financing public schools must be found, and Michigan has clearly taken a bold step in that direction." Officials in Rhode Island, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Vermont all asked for detailed projections of Engler's plan...
...another name). As for fears of declining quality of care, a more cogent criticism would be that the Administration has made the benefits it would guarantee to everybody more generous than most insurance plans now provide -- raising a serious question of whether the plan contains anything like an adequate method of paying for them...