Opinion
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What Do Parents Choose?
Opinion -If parents were given the power to choose schools for their children, would they make wise choices? -
How Community Learning Was Morphed into Child Care
Opinion -Providing children with expanded learning opportunities in a safe, drug-free, and supervised environment is a laudable goal . . . but it isn't one of the goals set by the legislation controlling 21st Century Community Learning Centers. -
Delivering on the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity: an interview with Joseph P. Viteritti
Opinion -“School choice is fundamentally an ethical moral issue, an issue of social justice. It is a sense of moral outrage that will eventually change public policy. It's not research; it's not regression analysis. -
Colorado Groups Seek School Choice Options
Opinion -Two new grassroots group of parents and community leaders met at the State Capitol in Denver on March 15 to share ideas on political activism and to show their support for a pilot school choice program they had designed for Colorado. -
A Grass Act
Opinion -With winter snowstorms now a fading memory, it’s time to focus attention on the verdant lawn that is soon to become a source of pride in high-sun months. -
Court decision is victory for chlorine, public health
Opinion -On March 31, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that EPA violated the Safe Drinking Water Act by failing to use the “best available peer-reviewed science” when it tried to institute a “zero -
Disaster on thin ice
Opinion -Sure is nice out! But watch that spring in your step. As the black-and-white of winter is forgotten in a burst of colorful daffodils and tulips, maybe we should be worrying about melting the polar ice cap. In response to Konstantin Ya. -
Earobics Literacy Software Wins Parents’ Choice Award
Opinion -Earlier this year, the Parents' Choice organization awarded its 1999 Parents' Choice "Approved" Award to Earobics Step 2, a software package for teaching early literacy skills. -
EPA’s computer “security” system still a mess
Opinion -Enterprising hackers looking for a way to loot trade secrets, compromise law enforcement procedures, or assist foreign intelligence agencies in carrying out economic espionage used to have it good. All they had to do was raid the U.S. -
Fighting for Control over Children
Opinion -Power Comes First When the income of a business is threatened by the loss of customers to a competitor offering better service at lower cost, a number of responses are possible, from aggressively topping the competitor's offering to simply hoping -
Gore: Private Schools Are Un-American
Opinion -Appearing with children in a recent campaign ad for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Vice President Al Gore said private schools "are fine, but not with money designated for public schools where 90 percent of our American children go. -
Greenpeace Versus Common Sense
Opinion -There they go again. Just three weeks before the 30th anniversary of Earth Day, a former Greenpeace staffer has released a book intended to frighten us into banning one of the most useful chemicals known to man, chlorine. -
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.
