Opinion
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Dixy Lee Ray Symposium: CO2 Levels: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Opinion -As the world's economies continue to rely on fossil fuels, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere continue to rise. Is that good news or bad? And if it's bad, what is the "something" we should do about it? -
Crawford: Regulatory Improvement Act Would Achieve ‘Long-sought Goal of Science-based Decision-making’
Opinion -In my view and based on my experience, S. 746, the "Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999," would remedy a pernicious problem that has increasingly bedeviled the U.S. rule-making process. -
Alaska’s Forests Left to Die by Government ‘Stewards’
Opinion -Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula is a lush, green wilderness pointing southwest from Anchorage toward Kodiak Island . . . no more. -
Ferries Under Fire
Opinion -Ferry boats each year provide 100 million passengers in 35 states with an alternative means of transportation that not only relieves traffic congestion, but often provides breathtaking views of their natural surroundings. -
11/1999 Junk Science Report: Smog and Mirrors
Opinion -New York’s attorney general plans to seek “enormous” legal damages from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest and South unless they stop polluting New York’s air. The U.S. -
Better America Bonds
Opinion -Vice President Al Gore, whose efforts to rid the country of urban sprawl and greenhouse gases have already made him the designated “environmentalist” candidate for the Y2K Presidential nomination, could soon have at his disposal $9. -
Chicago Moves Fast to Halt Beetle Spread
Opinion -In sharp contrast to the federal government’s inaction when faced with a beetle invasion, Chicago, Illinois moved quickly when it discovered trees infested by the Asian long-horned beetle. -
Federal District Court Brings Northwest Timber Sales to a Standstill
Opinion -Federal District Court Judge William Dwyer in Seattle granted a temporary injunction against 25 timber sales, after having previously halted nine projects involving 22 sales in early August. -
Going Ape
Opinion -“We demand the extension of the community of equals to include all great apes: human beings, chimpanzees, and orangutans,” declared the Great Ape Project, an animal rights group whose U.S. headquarters is listed as a post office box in Portland, Oregon. -
USDA Forest Service Works with Local Groups
Opinion -The U.S. Forest Service recently took a major step to protect spotted owl habitat and preserve old-growth forests, while at the same time providing for selective logging and clearing underbrush that causes wildfires. -
What Should We Call ‘Nonpublic Schools’?
Opinion -“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene ii "I am not a crook.” President Richard M. -
How to Discourage Competition
Opinion -The ongoing court battles over the constitutionality of the Cleveland voucher program not only tie up the resources of school choice advocates, but also create among the program’s participants fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the program’s future. -
Raising Education Standards
Opinion -Although it's unlikely that Congress will ever legislate national education standards, competition among the states will bring about the natural evolution of higher state standards, according to author Denis P. -
Can Poor Children Learn?
Opinion -Statistics show that most of America's public schools are failing the very children most in need of an education springboard to success: children from low-income families. -
Educational Freedom: A Civil Rights Issue
Opinion -When he presented his choice-based education policy proposals to a national forum of more than 5,000 black Baptist delegates in Tampa, Florida, GOP presidential candidate Steve Forbes knew he wasn't preaching to the choir. -
The Horizon Program
Opinion -The Horizon program, sponsored by the Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation, was launched in April 1998, allowing students in San Antonio's Edgewood Independent School District to use vouchers starting with the 1998_99 school year. -
How Arizona’s Tax Credit Works
Opinion -Author: Idea conceived by former lawmaker Trent Franks. Eligibility: Any individual who pays taxes to the State of Arizona. Donations made in a specific year are reported on tax returns for that year. -
Debunking Lies about School Choice
Opinion -Opponents of school choice are telling lies about the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and the record needs to be set straight, former Milwaukee School Superintendent Howard Fuller told a Heritage Foundation audience in Washington, DC, on September 9. -
School Choice in Michigan
Opinion -A petition drive organized by Kids First! Yes! is under way in Michigan to collect 302,711 signatures to place a voucher question on the November 2000 ballot. -
Other Findings
Opinion -As well as student academic improvement, the program's effective serving of target families, and parental satisfaction, Dr. Kim K. -
Will Computers Replace Teachers?
Opinion -Stateline.org staff writer Tiffany Danitz reported in October that not everyone is delighted with the emergence of virtual high schools. -
Parental Satisfaction
Opinion -While no approach satisfies everyone, even where they have exercised choice, parents of voucher students are much more satisfied than parents in the public school system. -
11/1999 State Education Roundup
Opinion -California District of Columbia * Florida * Hawaii Massachusetts * Nebraska * Nevada * New Hampshire New Jersey * Pennsylvania * Rhode Island * Washington CALIFORNIA Using Grades 11-12 for College Courses Some students could graduate from -
Cleveland Vouchers Begin to Pay Dividends
Opinion -News about Cleveland’s voucher program came in rapid-fire succession around the opening of the 1999-2000 school year. But perhaps the most significant development came last . . . and received the least coverage from the mainstream media.
