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Teacher Union Targets Washington Think Tank
Opinion -"The primary purpose or one of the primary purposes [of a political action committee] is to affect government decision making by supporting or opposing candidates or ballot positions. -
The Fire this Time
Opinion -For the past five years, spending by the federal government for forest fire prevention and suppression--most of it in the western states--averaged almost $900 million per year. -
Union Foils Decertification in Michigan
Opinion -An attempt to decertify the Michigan Education Association, undertaken by 55 MEA members in Branch County, Michigan, was foiled when MEA intimidation and interference caused the employees to fear for their jobs and vote to continue union representation -
Here’s an Opportunity to Make an Impact on Our Schools!
Opinion -Bert L. Holt, program director for the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, has been involved in education for 35 years, starting as an inner-city elementary school teacher in Cleveland. -
Unscientific, Deceptive, and a Disservice to American Women
Opinion -NBC health correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot's book, The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life was published in October 1998. -
Analysis: Reformulated Gas: EPA Didn’t Do its Homework
Opinion -In taking the Hippocratic oath, fledgling physicians solemnly pledge they will, “First, do no harm. -
Opposition to CEQ Appointment Mounts
Opinion -A growing number of environmentalists are opposing the appointment of a “proven ideologue” to the vacant chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). George T. Frampton Jr. -
03/1999 Junk Science Update
Opinion -Junk scientists take to heart the sports adage, "Winners never quit and quitters never win. -
Media Ignores the ‘Hole’ Ozone Story
Opinion -Not all climate scientists accept the argument that human emissions of greenhouse gases are responsible for a thinning of the Earth's ozone layer. But the skeptics’ views are consistently ignored by a news media that apparently does. -
Study: Cash-strapped Park System Need Not Close Facilities
Opinion -While acknowledging that the state of Washington's park system faces serious budget problems, an Olympia-based research group says Governor Gary Locke's threat to close 40 parks is nothing more than political maneuvering. -
Navy Ice Research Program Runs Around
Opinion -Efforts to determine why the Arctic ice cap is shrinking could be seriously hampered by the U.S. Navy's recent decision to discontinue its six-year-old Scientific Ice Expeditions program. -
Poll: State, Local Governments Better than Feds on Environmental Protection
Opinion -Seven out of 10 registered voters nationwide believe that state or local government agencies can better protect the environment than the federal government, according to a new poll conducted by The Polling Company for the Washington, DC-based -
Making Waves: NCPA Report Sets Sea Level Record Straight
Opinion -A natural phenomenon that scientists find extremely difficult to measure, rising sea levels are nevertheless often summoned as evidence that environmental disaster looms if industrialized nations do nothing to curtail their emissions of climate-warming -
Global Warming Not Responsible for 1998’s Unusual Weather
Opinion -The United States may have experienced more than its fair share of unusual weather during 1998, but that had nothing to do with global warming. -
Choice Is Breaking Out All Over
Opinion -Although school choice legislation already was under serious consideration in many states, those efforts have been bolstered by last year's Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Milwaukee voucher program. The U.S. -
News from CEO America
Opinion -Oprah Floods Scholarships Lines! The 12,000 phone lines for the Children's Scholarship Fund were jammed on February 2 after Wall Street investor Ted Forstmann appeared on Oprah Winfrey's television show to publicize the program. -
The Business of Education
Opinion -Freightliner Makes School Buses Safer School districts throughout Florida have ordered more than 300 new Freightliner school buses with improved safety features, including increased driver visibility and maneuverability. -
President Mum on What Doesn’t Work
Opinion -While unimpressed with most proposals in President Bill Clinton's 1999 State of the Union message, two GOP legislators--Representatives Dick Armey of Texas and Peter Hoekstra of Michigan--did find one idea they could support: Stop investing in -
Clinton Wants More Strings on K-12 Funding
Opinion -In an image-dominated atmosphere more reminiscent of an Academy Awards ceremony than a joint session of the U.S. -
Throwing Good Money after Bad
Opinion -With education high on everyone's political agenda, two policy prescriptions heavily promoted as solutions to voter concern about the poor performance of public schools are more money and smaller classes. -
Watts Pushes School Vouchers
Opinion -Publicly funded vouchers are not a violation of the separation of church and state because the money goes to the parents, not to the school, explained Representative J.C. Watts Jr. -
Students Get No Boost from Head Start
Opinion -Kindergarten students who did not participate in the federally funded Head Start programs in Louisiana performed no worse in school than students who did, according to an audit by the Legislative Auditor’s Office. -
03/1999 State Education Roundup
Opinion -Colorado * Illinois * Massachusetts * Michigan * Missouri New York * Pennsylvania * Vermont COLORADO New GOP Governor Speeds School Reform Republican lawmakers in Colorado are making up for lost time now that Democratic Governor Roy Romer -
Engler Eyes Chicago Model For Michigan
Opinion -Like Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York, Michigan's Governor John Engler is looking to Chicago as a model for school reform: He wants to allow Michigan mayors to take control of underperforming local schools, just as the state legislature gave Chicago