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In 1933 educators in California organized to oppose Gov. James Rolph Jr. and the California Taxpayers Association, a consortium of utility companies seeking lower taxes. The California Teachers Association (CTA) combated proposals to cut per-pupil expenditures from thirty to twenty-four dollars per year, to repeal tenure for teachers, and to eliminate kindergarten and adult education. To the Los Angeles Examiner such proposals were advanced "by pinchpenny politicians who want to save on education, not for the avowed purpose of balancing state budgets, but to have more money to squander on their friends and supporters." Teachers agreed and rallied local communities to defend their schools. The CTA and public supporters succeeded in getting state funding of thirty dollars per year for each elementary-school child (sixty dollars per high-school student) and an increase in teacher wages.
"Wreckers."
In 1932 the United States Chamber of Commerce (an...
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