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Dropout Rate Continues Downward Trend
Opinion -Out of a total 9.9 million young adults aged 15-24 enrolled in high school in October 1996, some 454,000, or 4. -
Education Market Ready for Take-Off
Opinion -"A revolution is under way. Has anyone noticed? -
09/1999 Legislative Roundup
Opinion -American Heritage Rivers Initiative The National Wilderness Institute reported this little tidbit which, although not naming names, shows why you better keep the AHRI program on your radar scope. -
09/1999 State Education Roundup
Opinion -Florida * Kentucky * Maryland * Michigan Montana * New Jersey * New York * Pennsylvania * Wyoming FLORIDA Parents Sue Over School Fees A group of Palm Beach County parents have filed a lawsuit alleging that the class fees charged by Spanish -
09/1999 Steven Milloy’s Junk-Science Report
Opinion -In a scene reminiscent of a John Belushi "killer bee" skit from "Saturday Night Live," anti-technology activists dressed like butterflies in late June and demanded that European environment ministers ban the growing of genetically modified crops. -
Analysis: Energy in the Twenty-First Century
Opinion -Fossil fuels, once thought by many to be nearing depletion, are in fact becoming more abundant and environmentally sustainable, according to a recent Cato Institute policy analysis. -
Beach Resorts Benefit from Private Protection
Opinion -All along the barrier islands off South Carolina's coast, private property owners are setting an example of how to protect beaches and other environmental resources without federal or state assistance. -
California Dropout Numbers Exposed as Phony
Opinion -In a great victory for the state's school choice advocates, California's reported dropout numbers have been exposed as phony. Although the California Department of Education had claimed in June 1998 a 3. -
Call to Pull Children Out of Public Schools
Opinion -A new coalition of concerned parents and educators is calling for parents to pull their children out of public schools and educate them in the safety of their homes or private schools, according to a recent news account from the Daily Herald, based in -
Connecticut Congressman Would Wall off Land in Five Western States
Opinion -“That land is not their land,” Representative Chris Shays (R-Connecticut) told Environment News, referring to the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. -
Federal Agency Turns off Farmers’ Water
Opinion -Farmers in the Methow Valley in northern Washington, who earlier this year saw their traditional irrigation sources shut down by the federal government, claim they are being coerced into giving up some of their water rights in order to protect -
‘Good sprawl’?
Opinion -I haven't heard of "good sprawl," and probably neither have you. That's because "sprawl" is one of those words it's almost impossible to use dispassionately. The negative judgment comes built in, as with "pollution. -
Inhofe, whistleblowers blast EPA for ‘totally ignoring science’
Opinion -Expressing his dismay over the treatment of science and scientists at EPA, Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) pledged to hold hearings soon to address the agency's abusive tactics. -
Kakadu to You
Opinion -At a summer meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, an attempt was made by that world-wide environmental bureaucracy to dictate land use in Australia. An alphabet soup of U.N. -
Livable Communities, Wise Land Use, and Corn
Opinion -There is nothing like a drive across the fruited plain--which, I get the impression, few liberal politicians have taken--to convince you that the free market, operated by free citizens, is the best arbiter of land use. -
News from the Presidential Race
Opinion -McCain Offers Voucher Amendment In a surprise move during Senate debate on the GOP tax bill, presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R_Arizona) offered an amendment to create a national school choice demonstration project for children from -
Scientists Decry ‘Atmosphere of Fear’ at EPA
Opinion -The misuse of science at the Environmental Protection Agency has gone from the "chronic to the acute," according to David Lewis, a 28-year veteran of EPA. -
Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Opinion -"Disorder occurs when many students do not recognize the legitimacy of school rules and violate them often. . . . Disorder can take the form of students arriving late, students wandering the halls, or even graffiti and litter. -
The Auto and its Enemies
Opinion -Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies and the Politics of Mobility James A. Dunn Jr. Brooking Institution Press, 1998 250 pages; paper $18.95, cloth $44. -
Venture Capital for Education
Opinion -Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have formed The New Schools Fund to apply the venture capital model to the K-12 education industry. -
Victim Impact Statement: New York Couple Wages Three-year Fight Against Bureaucrats
Opinion -When Tai and Adele Aguirre renovated a broken-down home in upstate New York in 1994, little did they know that would mark the beginning of a three-year legal nightmare with New York City bureaucrats that nearly cost them their livelihood. -
The New Rules of Federalism
Opinion -After a great deal of debate and deliberation, your Congress passes a law that says all employers must pay workers for overtime. That is the law of the land, and everyone must follow it, right? Wrong. The sovereign State of Maine doesn't have to. -
Summer Reading
Opinion -School Reform News' contributing editors and friends helped compile this list of recommended books for summer reading. TOP PICK If you read only one book this summer, make it this one: Andrew J. -
Study: President’s Education Proposal Redefines
Opinion -"I believe we must change the way we invest money to support what works and to stop supporting what does not work. . . .
