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Judicial update: How environment issues are faring in the courts
Opinion -Public Lands Council v. Babbitt The U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments challenging regulations, proposed in 1995 by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and set to go into effect this spring, alleged to violate the Taylor Grazing Act. -
Manhattan, Harvard Sponsor School Choice Debate
Opinion -On March 9-10, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) jointly sponsored a "Conference on Charter Schools, Vouchers, and Public Education" at the Taubman Center in the -
NAEP Becoming an Offer States Can’t Refuse
Opinion -WASHINGTON--Proponents of limited government long have warned that the advent of national testing of schoolchildren would result in a national curriculum dictated by the federal government and a corresponding loss of state sovereignty. -
Recovering from a School Crisis
Opinion -Planning ideas developed in handling the psychological aftermath of two devastating earthquakes in Turkey last year have become part of a new Web-based crisis manager designed specifically for schools to handle crisis situations: acts of violence, -
Religion and the Environment: Natural bedfellows
Opinion -I think the sentiment guiding [left-wing environmentalists] is that “nature knows best.” It is as though the only unnatural thing on the planet is man--or man’s mind. We just see this very differently. -
The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship
Opinion -The past millennium brought unprecedented improvements in human health, nutrition, and life expectancy, especially among those most blessed by political and economic liberty and advances in science and technology. -
The Environmentalists of Summer
Opinion -With baseball season in full swing, it’s good to remember that in science, nature bats last. Spin all the theories you like, throw curves at the media to draw attention (i.e. -
Think tank examines climate data
Opinion -Leaders from across the environmental spectrum have commented on the newfound effectiveness of state and regionally based think tanks. Now, state-level organizations are entering the global warming fray. -
New Studies Point to Success of English Immersion
Opinion -As California schools move into the closing months of their second year under Proposition 227, a number of studies have demonstrated that children are thriving under English immersion. -
In Colorado, Fulfillment of the Charter-School Dream
Opinion -A recent report from the U.S. Department of Education documented the phenomenal growth of charter schools, while a state-level study done in Colorado was showing how these quasi-independent schools can work at their best. -
Elian Gonzalez Case Exposes Choice Hypocrisy
Opinion -A number of commentators who strongly oppose allowing parents to choose schools for their children have nonetheless come out in favor of allowing the father of refugee Elian Gonzalez to choose whether the 6-year-old should be returned to the -
Public School Programs Empty Private Preschools
Opinion -Until recently, when parents in Hartford, Connecticut were looking for early childhood education programs, they didn't find many at the city's public schools, which focused on their traditional mission of educating the K-12 age group. -
Court: Public Schools Not Accountable to Parents
Opinion -In an important decision that will strengthen the arguments of school choice advocates, the Colorado Court of Appeals unanimously ruled on February 3 that parents cannot sue public school districts for not providing a quality education to their -
EPA: Gas additive is a pollutant
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A Report Card for School Choice
Opinion -A growing body of research suggests that choice-based reforms often can yield positive results, with little evidence of making matters worse. -
Judge Strikes Down Florida Vouchers
Opinion -In a decision widely applauded by school choice opponents, Leon County Circuit Court Judge L. Ralph Smith Jr. ruled on March 14 that the Florida law authorizing the nation's first statewide voucher program is unconstitutional. -
CARA freight train rolls on
Opinion -The effort to create a massive federal land-buying trust, funded with billions of tax dollars, is moving through Congress like a freight train, with hundreds of sponsors. -
Forest Service Council blasts roadless program
Opinion -POCATELLO, IDAHO March 17--The Forest Service Council, representing 14,000 Forest Service employees in 92 National Forest Service unions, has issued a letter denouncing the Clinton-Gore administration's roadless area initiative. -
Dissenting Views on H.R. 701
Opinion -“Despite the best intentions of the authors, H.R. -
Clinton-Gore roadless plan developed illegally
Opinion -From early 1999, right through the President’s State of the Union Address this year, the Clinton-Gore White House and the U.S. -
Global warming smokescreen
Opinion -Anyone who follows the history of global warming science vs. climate reality ought to keep a copy of the late Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, as a guidebook. -
The making of a Roadless Initiative
Opinion -Forestry subcommittee investigators probing the development of the Clinton-Gore administration’s “Roadless Initiative” have pieced together an incriminating timeline of events, from the Forest Service’s first efforts in early 1999 -
Activists Protest Global Warming Treaty
Opinion -Members of Texas Citizens for a Sound Economy and consumer activists from across the Lone Star State descended on Austin in early March to rally against the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol. -
05/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -California * District of Columbia * Illinois * Kentucky * Louisiana * Massachusetts Nevada * New Hampshire * New Jersey * Ohio * Oklahoma * Texas * Washington CALIFORNIA School Bond Initiative Fails California voters turned out on Super
