Opinion
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Citizens sue President over National Monument
Opinion -Seven Arizona state lawmakers have joined 16 citizens to sue President Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt over the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument recently created by the Clinton-Gore administration in Arizona under the Antiquities Act -
Earth Day 2000
Opinion -Go online. Take a look at www.earthday.net. It’s the home page for Earth Day Network. On Earth Day, April 22, 2000 (my birthday) there will be a huge celebration sponsored by Earth Day Network on the Mall in Washington, DC. -
Old growth trees meet predictable end
Opinion -A fierce wind storm that roared across Europe this winter tore down hundreds of “old growth” trees on the grounds of France’s famed Versailles Place. -
California woman seeks $2 million
Opinion -In 1988, Peggy Ann Buckley and her husband purchased a 2.75 acre parcel of property in Malibu, California to build a house. -
A nation of weather weenies?
Opinion -Our reaction to normal weather events prompts the following question: Is panic the price of eternal vigilance? -
No reliable test for genetically modified foods
Opinion -“No one should pretend that food labeling claiming a product is GM-free can be reliable, since the current variation in results between laboratory tests on GM foods is too wide,” said Dr. -
As Teachers, We Believe …
Opinion -All of the educators on the Teachers' Advisory Board of the Children's Scholarship Fund signed on to the following Statement of Principles: Children are the reason for a system of education, and that system's needs must never take precedence over -
Creating Partnerships
Opinion -"We have lost our focus on our core business of educating children," and one way to get that focus back is to outsource things we don't do well, maintains James Williams, former superintendent of the public school system in Dayton, Ohio. -
Vouchers Improve Academic Outcomes
Opinion -Since supporters of parental choice in education hold the moral high ground in the education reform debate, opponents have consistently attempted to shift the debate to secondary issues, such as cost and whether choice produces better outcomes. -
Shooting the Messenger
Opinion -When Judge Kenneth Starr agreed to become Special Prosecutor, he little suspected that his own professional integrity would be targeted for destruction in order to discredit the findings of his investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the -
Magnet Schools Take Best Students
Opinion -While public school advocates demand that voucher schools take all students who apply so they cannot "skim the cream," the same advocates of equal opportunity do not make the same demands on public magnet schools, which have highly selective enrollment -
Keyes Would Abolish Dept. of Education
Opinion -In a January 11 speech to the Professional Educators of Iowa, a group of teachers and school administrators who oppose mandatory teacher membership in unions, Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes called for the abolition of the 21-year-old U.S. -
Who Picked Gore?
Opinion -A recent nationwide survey of teachers by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution revealed Texas Governor George W. Bush as their first choice for the next President of the United States, with almost as many undecided. -
TesseracT Assures Parents: Schools Will Stay Open
Opinion -With its stock delisted from Nasdaq, two of its top officers resigned, one-quarter of its central office staff laid off, and three of its schools outside of Arizona closed, the TesseracT Group, Inc. -
Administrators Wrong on Choice
Opinion -Parents who took advantage of Wisconsin's public school choice program were not driven by convenience, but were seeking a better education for their children, according to a new study from Milwaukee's Public Policy Forum, a private, nonprofit public -
Forests burn while Clinton-Gore administration fiddles
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The Latest Storm of Hyperbole
Opinion -A mere 20 years ago, climatologists were the offensive guards of the weather world--the dutiful servants whom nobody noticed unless they got flagged for holding, moving before the snap, or popping the line judge with a right hook. -
Inkster Gets the Message
Opinion -As Detroit Free Press reporters Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki and Sheryl James noted recently, no one took it seriously a few years ago when the Mackinac Center for Public Policy proposed the idea of privatizing public school districts. -
School Reform @ the Speed of Thought
Opinion -In a move that melded together two fast-growing developments--market-based school reform and the Internet--The Heartland Institute in February took an important step towards expanding and accelerating its outreach and marketing efforts by initiating -
Troubled Districts Face Takeover . . . By Private Firms
Opinion -While it's relatively easy for state policy makers to identify a failing school district and then take it over, legislators around the country are beginning to realize it's another matter entirely to turn the performance of that district around. -
04/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Colorado * Connecticut * Florida * Georgia * Indiana * Kansas * Kentucky Maryland * Michigan * Missouri * New Hampshire * New Jersey * New Mexico New York * Pennsylvania * South Carolina * South Dakota * Utah Vermont * Virginia * -
Another row to hoe
Opinion -Hundreds of studies each year find that most plants produce more fruit, seem more resistant to environmental stresses, and use water more efficiently in a world of higher atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). -
Competition Necessary for Sustainable School Reform
Opinion -The estimated $360 billion U.S. K-12 education market makes up almost 10 percent of GDP, the second largest sector after health care. -
Eight positive environmental trends
Opinion -If present global demographic trends continue, the world population is likely to top out at 7.5 billion people in 2040 and begin to decline. Global life expectancy rose from an average of 46 years in 1950 to over 64 years today.