Opinion
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Minnesotans Want School Reform, Not More Taxes
Opinion -Only one in five Minnesotans wants state legislators to spend the state's $1. -
New Hampshire Senate Approves Local Choice Plan
Opinion -With all Republicans and one Democrat voting Yes, the New Hampshire State Senate approved Senator James M. Rubens' parental choice and tuition reimbursement bill by a 16-8 vote on April 2. -
New Study Supports Oft-Criticized Mining Law
Opinion -Critics of the 1872 Mining Law, which governs metal mining on federal lands, are wrong when they contend it is an environmentally destructive giveaway to corporate mining interests. -
Regulation Plagued by Unintended Consequences
Opinion -The Committee on Economic Development’s Modernizing Government Regulation report identifies a host of unintended consequences that result from the regulatory system’s disregard of sound science, cost-benefit comparisons, and, in some cases, common -
Regulations Cost Families 20 Percent of Income
Opinion -As Congress continues to ponder the fate of regulatory reform legislation, a new study shows how federal mandates are eating away at family incomes. -
Texas Gets First District-Wide Voucher Program
Opinion -For the first time ever, thousands of students in an entire Texas school district will be able to exercise school choice through a new, privately funded, voucher program. -
The Future of Environmental Policy: Free Market Environmentalism: an exclusive interview with Fred L. Smith Jr.
Opinion -Fred L. Smith Jr. is the president and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a public interest group active in a wide range of economic and environmental public policy issues. -
Beyond Affirmative Action
Opinion -The angry affirmative-action dispute between the U.S. -
Governors Call for Reform
Opinion -At its annual winter meeting in Washington, the National Governors’ Association (NGA) on February 22 overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging Congress “to immediately pass regulatory reform legislation that would require federal regulatory agencies -
Concern Grows Over EPA’s Handling of Sludge
Opinion -Regulations frequently have unintended consequences, and EPA’s little-noticed Sludge 503 Rule may soon come back to haunt the agency. -
Abysmal Performance Plagues DC Schools
Opinion -Despite per-pupil spending levels that are among the highest in the nation, 1996-97 achievement scores released last December show that students in the District of Columbia’s public schools continue to perform at abysmally low levels in math and -
DC Board Oversteps Authority on Schools
Opinion -When Congress appointed a financial control board to assume responsibility for the District of Columbia’s municipal government in 1995, the board was granted “extraordinary” powers to address the city’s near financial collapse. -
Future of School Choice Visible in Michigan
Opinion -In a notable February 3 editorial, The Detroit News urged policy-makers and politicians to recognize that “the tide has shifted” in the school choice movement and that it no longer consists of “academics and think tank executives discussing scholarly -
04/1998 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Alabama * California * Illinois * Indiana * Massachusetts New York * Ohio * Texas * Wisconsin ALABAMA Working for the Government Charged Three Alabama citizens filed suit on January 20 against 21 state legislators, accusing them of violating -
States Should Take Lead on Environmental Enforcement, Industry Group Says
Opinion -Adding its voice to the growing chorus calling for devolution of environmental decision-making from Washington to state and local governments, an industry group has recommended giving states the lead role in enforcing the nation’s environmental -
Earth Day Events Show New Side of Environmental Movement
Opinion -As they have done each year on April 22 since 1970, environmentalists across the nation will celebrate Earth Day by staging events aimed at raising public awareness of environmental issues. -
The Detroit Partnership for Parental Choice
Opinion -The Detroit Partnership for Parental Choice hosted the January 31 “Choosing Our Future” conference at Detroit's Cobo Hall. -
Former Congressman Urges Pastors to Support Choice
Opinion -Saying that Texas can lead the way in school choice, the Rev. -
Rebuilding from the Roots
Opinion -The Educational Freedom Foundation’s fundraising efforts have begun to bear fruit with several significant contributions, according to EFF chairman Herman L. Kriegshauser and president Martin L. Duggan. -
Bilingual Ed Beneficial in Early Grades
Opinion -Students with Limited-English Proficiency who are taught using at least some of their native language perform significantly better on English-language standardized tests than similar children taught in English-only programs, according to a new study -
Family Owes $35,000 for Attending Wrong NJ School
Opinion -An immigrant family from Afghanistan found that America's promise of a free public education for their children was a false one when an administrative judge ruled that they owed New Jersey's Belleville school district $35,466 for inadvertently living -
NY Schools Fail Racial, Ethnic Minorities
Opinion -A new study calls for more parental choice in schooling to address a widening and persistently large “literacy gap” that divides two “separate and unequal school systems” in New York state--a largely successful one serving mostly white pupils and -
Improving Math Education
Opinion -Responding to the recently released Third International Mathematics and Science Study, U.S. -
Tired of Illiteracy, States Prescribe Phonics
Opinion -Although a panel of national experts on reading recently called for "an end to the reading wars," their plea for a cease-fire came too late for many lawmakers, who had already concluded that the battle was over, with phonics triumphant and whole