Opinion
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Kansas Voucher Plan Would Save Tax Dollars
Opinion -School choice proponents in Kansas won a major victory when State Budget Director Gloria Timmer conceded that State Representative Kay O’Connor’s statewide voucher proposal would save millions of tax dollars in the first year and would require no -
Texas Business Group Embraces Vouchers
Opinion -The Texas state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business has embraced Putting Children First, a nonpartisan grassroots organization promoting school choice. -
Employers Say Students Lack Skills to Succeed
Opinion -When high school teachers send their graduates off to jobs in the real world, some 66 percent are confident that most or all of their students have the skills necessary to succeed at work. -
Black Children Being “Killed” in Public Schools
Opinion -Charging that the public school system has lowered its standards and is preparing minority students "for slow deaths," former Democratic Congressman Floyd Flake issued a strong call for educational choice when he visited Indianapolis on December 17. -
California Charter School Hit With ‘Poison Pill’
Opinion -If a California voter initiative favoring more charter schools qualifies in June for the November ballot, an award-winning charter school will have to close its doors on June 30 because of a “poison pill” provision inserted by the San Luis Coastal -
Chicago Firm Keeps Music in City Classrooms
Opinion -When school districts contemplate budget cuts, well-meaning board members often target instrumental music education as nothing more than a pleasant diversion from the more serious work of learning reading and math. -
Restoring the Urban Advantage with School Choice
Opinion -Now in the middle of his third term of office, John Norquist was elected the 37th Mayor of Milwaukee in 1988 after serving in Democratic leadership positions in both the state assembly and senate. -
American Education: Defaulting on a Sacred Debt
Opinion -“Education, whether it was the story telling of the village elders, the writing of medieval monks, the lessons of a lone teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, or lectures given behind the ivy-covered walls of a university, was the way that each generation -
Textbooks Mislead Teachers on Environmental Issues
Opinion -Although professional environmental educators have established nationwide standards of fairness and accuracy for evaluating environmental education materials, a new study finds that all but one of the university-level textbooks used at eight University -
High Pay, Few Students for Illinois Superintendents
Opinion -Although Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul G. -
1997 a Banner Year for School Choice
Opinion -Nineteen ninety-seven was a breakthrough year for market-oriented education reform. -
03/1998 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Colorado * Illinois Maryland * Minnesota * Wisconsin CALIFORNIA Children Barred From Play Instead of organizing themselves into teams for boisterous pick-up games of soccer, tag, and other activities before the start of their -
How Textbooks Mislead Teachers
Opinion -Dr. Michael Sanera gives the following examples of how environmental teaching texts used in university-level courses in Wisconsin provide misleading information to prospective teachers about various environmental issues. -
Utah Water Education All Wet
Opinion -A comprehensive water education curriculum that encouraged scientific thought in children has been replaced by a “Project Wet” curriculum filled with activities that attribute human characteristics to animals, plants, and inanimate objects. -
California Poll: Economic Growth Depends on Improving Education
Opinion -In a poll conducted last fall for the California Business Roundtable, 94 percent of California business leaders and 86 percent of California voters reported their support for setting performance and academic standards for public schools. -
Creating a High-Performance Education and Training System
Opinion -The National Association of Manufacturers' report, "Education and Training for America's Future," offers six policy prescriptions for improving worker education and training. -
K-12 Education Savings Accounts Blasted
Opinion -It did not take the Clinton administration long to respond to the U.S. -
Manufacturers Endorse Vouchers, Education IRAs
Opinion -The K-12 classroom must be recognized as “the front line in global economic competition,” according to a new study from the National Association of Manufacturers. -
Ohio Roundtable Charges Dirty Tricks in School Tax Plan
Opinion -The Ohio Roundtable has accused the state’s House of Representatives of attempting to subvert the state constitution with a proposal that would allow it to pass a school funding tax with only a simple 50-vote majority, rather than a 60-vote -
Pennsylvania Voters Strongly Support School Choice
Opinion -Republican and Democratic voters in southwest Pennsylvania strongly support school choice, as well as Governor Tom Ridge’s efforts to implement statewide academic standards that students must meet before advancing from one grade to the next. -
School Choice Favored in Utah Poll
Opinion -Utah voters overwhelming support school choice, according to a survey of 300 Utah voters conducted last year by R.T. Nielson for the Utah Coalition for Freedom in Education. -
Small Businesses Oppose Tax Hike for Ohio Schools
Opinion -In apparent disagreement with the Ohio Supreme Court, which recently ruled the state must increase its education funding, only one out of three Ohio small business owners believes that too little is being spent on public education. -
Teachers, Not Students, Would Benefit Most from Smaller Classes
Opinion -In his State of the Union message on January 27, 1998, President Bill Clinton embraced the idea of reducing class size to 18 for students in grades one through three in the nation’s public schools. -
Accounting Could Be Reform Catalyst
Opinion -An accountant in green eyeshades, standing on the barricades and consulting a spreadsheet to direct the army of change, is an unlikely revolutionary figure in the battle for school reform.