Opinion
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How Long Must We Wait?
Opinion -While voucher opponents applauded Judge L. Ralph Smith Jr. -
Incentives Needed for Schools to Improve
Opinion -If competition from charter schools is to force greater reform in public schools, there must be a clearer link between enrollment and dollars, according to a recent study of charter schools by SUNY/Stony Brook researchers. -
New Audit of Milwaukee Program
Opinion -In February, Wisconsin's Legislative Audit Bureau released a new 174-page audit of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, detailing the history of the program, its annual cost, annual enrollment, current enrollment by grade, and ethnic composition of -
Shucking Off Paternalism
Opinion -If school choice has become the new civil rights movement, why is it that many traditional civil rights groups, such as the NAACP, join in lawsuits opposing the empowerment of low-income minority parents with school vouchers? -
Students Already Fleeing Failing Schools
Opinion -Under a private school choice program, the loss of just 53 Florida public school students to private schools served as a wake-up call for improvement to public schools throughout the state. -
The Drain Refrain: A Challenge for Private Education
Opinion -These are exciting times for private education. It's difficult to turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper without seeing a story about the success of private schools. -
Vouchers Leverage Change for Remaining Students
Opinion -Although just 53 Florida students used vouchers to transfer from public to private schools under the A+ Plan last year, at a cost of less than $200,000, the shift of those few students appears to have jolted many of the state's public schools into -
Auto emissions testing: Designed for failure
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Nineteen reasons to stop worrying about global warming
Opinion -The Washington Post ran a story recently with this howler of a headline: “Global Warming is ‘Real,’ Report Finds. -
Will the 106th Congress Promote School Choice?
Opinion -Congress has engaged in a flurry of school-choice activity in recent years--and it's likely to continue. -
U.S. Senate, Massachusetts Consider Bilingual Ed Reform
Opinion -As it deliberates reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the U.S. Senate is considering unprecedented reform of federal bilingual education programs. -
New Scholarship Programs Launched in St. Louis and Denver
Opinion -Inspired by last year’s overwhelming response from parents to the Children's Scholarship Fund, retired St. Louis businessman Eugene Williams and his wife Evie have donated $2.6 million toward the creation of a new $3.6 million fund, the St. -
Computers in K-12 Classrooms — Helpful, Hindrances, or Ornaments? interview with Andrew J. Coulson
Opinion -Public schooling: “a legally protected government monopoly bogged down by excessive regulation, protected from serious competition by its guaranteed tax funding base, bereft of the profit motive that spurs innovation and efficiency, and a pawn to -
Edison Schools Expanding Rapidly
Opinion -In February, Edison Schools, Inc. -
Who Determines Democrats’ Policy on Vouchers?
Opinion -Democrats oppose school choice not because the teacher unions oppose it, but because the American people overwhelmingly oppose it, claimed Vice President Al Gore during a recent debate with Bill Bradley at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. -
EPA writes new regs for Bt corn
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced new rules, worked out with the National Corn Growers Association, that would require farmers to plant a 20 percent border of non-Bt corn around the Bt corn acreage they grow. -
A history lesson from Tasmania
Opinion -News stories about global climate change have recently included temperature histories that extend back for about a thousand years, thanks to the efforts of such researchers as the University of Virginia’s Michael Mann and colleagues. -
Roadless areas near you
Opinion -Nearly every state in the nation has areas that would be made off-limits for road construction or maintenance if the Clinton-Gore administration's "roadless areas" proposal is put into affect. Connecticut--whose Rep. -
Spending the Surplus
Opinion -The Clinton-Gore administration has proposed $42.5 billion in spending on environmental projects as part of the FY2001 budget—an increase of 11 percent over last year, and a 35 percent increase from when they took office in 1993. -
Ignored elves terrorize U.S.
Opinion -The burning of biotechnology offices in Michigan State University’s historic Agriculture Hall on New Year’s Eve; fire set to a home in a new development near Bloomington, Indiana on January 23; and “havoc” wreaked at a University -
Judicial update
Opinion -Citizens’ right to sue upheld On January 12, 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that citizens do have the right to sue alleged polluters under the Clean Water Act. In a 7-2 decision in Friends of the Earth vs. -
I’m sick and tired of polls and I’m not going to take it any more!
Opinion -It used to be said that figures lie and liars figure. No more. Today they become pollsters . . . and the manipulators for whom they work. -
Science Panel: ‘Major Advances’ in Climate Modeling Required
Opinion -New findings from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) provide evidence that global climate model forecasts are unreliable indicators of future climate. -
Roads and roadless
Opinion -The drive to keep the American public out of public lands is picking up speed as the Clinton-Gore administration seeks ways to close off even more than the 60 million-plus acres already classified as roadless (see accompanying chart).