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Who Benefits From Title I?
Opinion -Passed in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," Title I, Aid to Disadvantaged Children, receives the bulk of the $13 billion spent by the federal government to aid K-12 education. A new report from the U.S. -
Washington Union Fined $15,000 for Non-Disclosure
Opinion -The Thurston County Superior Court fined the Washington Education Association (WEA) $15,000 on February 26 for failing to turn over a document detailing the union's political plan for the 1996 elections. -
By the Numbers: Holding Teachers Accountable
Opinion -Educators in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, and Ohio are weighing the introduction of a value-added approach to teacher and school performance evaluation already used in Tennessee to analyze how well schools and individual teachers are doing their jobs. -
Class Size Here and Abroad
Opinion -In 1806, the Free School Society opened a school in New York City where one teacher, using student monitors, was in charge of a school of 1,000 students. That was the Lancasterian, or monitorial system, developed in England. -
States, Not Federal Government, Are Key to Improving Air Quality in U.S.
Opinion -The nation’s air quality was improving long before the federal government established mandatory guidelines, says a new study, and those guidelines deserve very little of the credit for air quality improvements seen since their adoption. -
Junk Science or Sound? Five Questions to Ask
Opinion -In her February 17 address to the Independent Women’s Forum conference, “Scared Sick? -
Clinton Climate Change Budget Would Strengthen Global Warming Lobby
Opinion -In his budget request for Fiscal Year 2000, President Bill Clinton called for a dramatic 34 percent increase in funding for climate change research and tax incentives to encourage early action on climate change. -
Global Warming Debate Moves Forward on Many Fronts
Opinion -The government of Iceland announced in February that it would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, becoming the first OECD country to make such an announcement. -
Scared Sick?
Opinion -Shiny red apples on every table served as silent reminders of the Alar scare that ten years ago had mothers asking state troopers to stop school buses and take "dangerous" apples out of their children's lunch bags. -
Bills to Promote Educational Freedom
Opinion -Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) will introduce the following three bills to give American parents and communities direct control over their education dollars. Family Education Freedom Act. -
Class Size Reduction: Costly and Ineffective
Opinion -With education a major public concern and the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) up for reauthorization, many reforms are being put forward. Most of them reduce simply to "more of the same. -
National Reading Scores Show Some Improvement
Opinion -While Vice President Al Gore praised what he characterized as the "great progress" made by American students in national reading tests, a Department of Education official offered a much more sober assessment of recent test results, saying only that -
Planned Congestion in Portland
Opinion -Is “sustainable growth” good for the environment? Not if it involves planned congestion, misallocation of resources, and penalties for private green space, says John A. Charles, environmental policy director for the Cascade Policy Institute of Oregon. -
Education Savings Accounts Reintroduced
Opinion -Joined by a group of schoolchildren and a banner reading "Save for Students," Representatives Kenny Hulshof (R-Missouri) and William Lipinski (D-Illinois) introduced on March 10 the House version of Georgia GOP Senator Paul Coverdell's Education Savings -
04/1999 Parental Freedom in the States and Nation
Opinion -California Part of the effort to organize school choice activities in California is now under the care of venture capitalist Timothy Draper. Last year Draper created a Web site designed to mobilize grassroots support for school choice (http://www. -
NM Governor Vetoes Schools Budget Over Vouchers
Opinion -With the state legislature scheduled to adjourn on March 20, New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson on March 11 vetoed the $1. -
Kay Will Light Up Your Switchboard
Opinion -Few topics hit home more than education--ask any parent. -
Spelling Problems
Opinion -How much of a problem can a minor spelling error be? -
Study: EPA Focus on Chemicals Misses Children’s Health Target
Opinion -While contaminants in the environment may pose some danger to the nation’s children, there are far more serious--and measurable--threats more deserving of our attention and limited resources, according to a recent report from the Center for the Study -
IPCC to Raise Warming Forecast, Exclude U.S. Model?
Opinion -A scientific firestorm is brewing among distinguished dissenters and disenfranchised climate modelers amid rumors of major revisions to the United Nations' position on climate change. With its next report due in 2001, the U.N. -
New Hampshire Court Bars Voter Input on Income Tax
Opinion -The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled on March 11 that legislators, not voters, must decide on a new tax system to resolve the state's public school funding crisis . . . -
Ventura to Feds: Butt Out of Education
Opinion -"My view is, if Washington didn't overtax us so much on their end, we would have much more money to spend as individual states, and allow us to take care of our own education system. -
No Global Environmental Disasters: an Exclusive Interview with Environmental Optimist Jay Lehr
Opinion -Dr. Jay Lehr received the nation's first PhD in ground water hydrology from the University of Arizona in 1962, following a degree in geological engineering from Princeton University and a few years' stint in the U.S. -
How to Pass Your Emissions Test
Opinion -Sinclair Community College professor James Halderman offers Environment News readers the following tips for passing a vehicle emissions test. 1. Test your vehicle on a nice day only--avoid very cold or windy days.