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pqlCIty taxes will be
mauy. will expc2ieoce
OlItJ8Ck or decrease in the
IID(KIDl c:I. tax paid in the fol- .
l<J\viog y
The Educational Bill of
Rights re tore hone ty to
edacati onal f by estab­
lishing simple formula for
e fuDding of K-12 education:
fifty-fdty pus the lottery.
In other words, the 5 e must
match dollar for dollar all
revenue raised by local school
operating poperty taxes in addi­
tion to all lottery proceeds.
This the approxim te
percentage which the state
funded K-12 educati in 1972,
the time of the enactme of the
st te lottery and is also the
average at which other tales
fund K-12 education.
The percentage' ddition
redeems the pledge made to
Michigan voters in 1972 to
direct all lottery proceeds to K-
12 education.
The Proposal also establishes
a powerful incentive to cut local
chool p-operty taxes. Under the
fifty-fifty formula, the state
receives a $2 credit against its
obligation for every $1 it
provides in local school proper­
ty t relief. This should result
in a $250 million millage
rollbac for in-formula school
distnct taxpayers.
An increased annual ap­
P'opl . on of about '$1 billion
will be required to chieve fifty­
fifty pi us the lottery. The
Proposal permits the state to
meet thi obligation over the
course of pproxim ely five
years.
Quality is also a foc of this
p-oposai defimng the ri and
responsibilitie of students,
teachers, schoo piDcipals aDd
the state board of education
holding them ccoUDt e for
student perfOl'lllaDCC.
The proposal requires that a
core curriculum be conceived
and implemented, together with
objective based testing measur­
ing student mastery of the core
curruculum, Kearney said.
Calling their proposal more
reasonable than the Patterson­
Anderson resolution which
asked for $700 million in
property tax relief in one year,
Kearney said it allows 5 years
for the fifty-fifty balance and is
quality education oriented.
Other scbool finance reform
De rot
Improvement
elect officer
At it board of directors
meeting Saturday, April 28, the
Detroit Improvement Associa­
tion, Inc. elected Delore
Blackmon, Chair; Charlene
Batchelor, Vice Ch ir; and
Janice McClellan,
Secretary/Treasurer. Others
elevated to the board were Don
Moore, James Clay and Cheryl
Cohen.
Under the four year leader­
ship of Shelton V ugbn, execu­
tive director. the association has
developed the Boys of Excel­
lence program, a Scholarship
Debate, and the Youth Festival
of Lights. " .
the ociation is currently
on a course to reduce homicides
in Detroit to 64 or less per year
by 1996.
poposaIs have beea baled <m
dollan DOt from the eduCa-
Ii I point, he added.
Detnit beiDg an in-formula
<istrict will beucfit greatly both
educational and financially,
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could save between S60 to S120
in property taxes," Olmste d
p-edicted.
"It is really going to revamp
the scbool ystems cross the
state," Olmstead aid
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DImlOIT - Public schools
students will be able to air their
view , their tale and their in­
telligence cro the city if
General Superintendent, John
Porter s, recommendation goes
through. "
Porter told boardmemhers
during an Apil 24 board meet-
. ing that the system hould keep
its educational broadcasting sta­
tion, WDTR, but not without
some impeoveme .
The current budget of
$236,947 i sufficient for station
operation for the rest of this
year, he aid in . staff report.
However, a reorganization
figure w quoted $500,000
including televi ion well
radio opera '0 •
A full relocation and station
equipnent upgrading report on
budget and costs win be
presented by y 15.
Deputy superintenden Dar­
rell Burks d Arthur Carter will
oversee an evaluation of radio
station operati to detenn'
the f ibility of move. Carter
will be directed to redesign the
on-air sy tem cheduled to be
completed May 15.
The goal i to develop a stu­
dent mar et, well student
producers, ho ts and tech-
u
a
ards scholarships
ARBOR - Fourty-Four
high chool seniors have been
selected to receive th Martin
Luther King Scholarship at The
University of Michigan.
C osen by the U-M Reunion"
Committee for Black
Or duates, they will receive the
on-renewable merit awards of
$1,000 each if they enroll in the
U- at Ann Arbo in t e fall of
1990.
So e 300 tuden in the na-
tion re no . ted th· year
for 0 hip. omination
aiteria . eluded gr
. . d test scores (finan-
ci I need is not co' dera­
tion). The applicant submit
two letter of recommendation
nd an" e y describing their
"vie u and commitment to
human rights which either
p r lIel or reflect the
philosophy of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr."
The holar hip is supported
by funds r . ed by the Reunion
Committee for Black
Gradu tes. Th committee is
. ted ith the Alumni As­
U- .
re will be , two- and
-year term appointmen
co i ling of f pofessional
broadcaste on tudent, two
staff persoas, 0 member from
the professional usines com­
munity and two embers from
the community.
Arthur Car er, interim
WDTR director, 008 with the
dvi ory board ould ist
staff in drafting Poliey and
Pr es Man for WDTR
ope no late that June 15,
19 , orter aid
An evaluation f the WDTR
peration hould ur aft :1 a
24-month period rom Septem­
ber 1990.
Ar hur Carte
Metty will
terest which will be
signed by each empoyec twice
each year. This conflict of inter-
est polis:>' i due by y 15.
One part of th evaluatio
process will be report on the
measurable achievements of
students who become acitve in
operating WDTR, r than
those who merely listen to it
Flforts to revamp the station
par ed ome CODIroversy
earlier thi year.
Several community members
opposed the composition of the
chosen panel Charging members
we"1 a part of the media and
could benefit personally frOOl
the tation.
Another complaint was that·
Porter, former pesident of
em Michigan University, would
e control over the station put­
ting university 0 ficials in
char of operatio
Those who opposed the firing
of Mary Wilks, fonner WDTR
director and th reorganizatio
of tation belie led WDTR
would be en from th com-
munity
review co ittee con-
sisting of pa t 0 pre ent
employees of wrvs Channel
56, WWJ New Radio- WJOI
d WXYT ew t 1 dio
1270 conducted clo ed meet­
ing for wee