Opinion
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Background to the Claremont Lawsuit
Opinion -The New Hampshire school funding case was filed originally in 1991 by five school districts, five students, and eight taxpayers and parents, known collectively as the Claremont Lawsuit Coalition. -
Does Classical Education Work?
Opinion -Students from the first modern classical education school, Logos School in Moscow, Idaho, regularly outperform their peers in statewide academic contests, such as the Idaho State Law Foundation’s Mock Trial competition. -
Bipartisan Tax Credit Bill Vetoed in Illinois
Opinion -Lame-duck Illinois Governor Jim Edgar started the first day of his last full year in public office by wielding his veto pen to quash almost a year of effort by Illinois lawmakers to build bipartisan support for a $500 tuition tax credit bill. -
Little Movement on Key Environment Issues Expected in 1998
Opinion -A short Congressional schedule, the political realities stemming from divided government, President Clinton’s uncertain political future, and a general lack of agreement on how to address a host of highly controversial environment issues--all make it -
Appeals Court Deals Federal Wetlands Permitting Program Major Setback
Opinion -The Clinton administration’s wetlands policy suffered a significant setback last December when an appeals court ruled that the U.S. -
State Toxic Use Reduction Programs Offer Lessons in Failure
Opinion -State legislators and federal regulators seeking to improve the quality of the environment by introducing strict “toxic use reduction” (TUR) programs may want to reconsider their efforts. -
Ten Ways to Improve Public Schools …That Don’t Cost a Penny
Opinion -Year after year, the tune is the same: "We need more money to pay our teachers what they are worth" or "we need more money to build a new school or addition. -
Classical Education Makes a Comeback
Opinion -In a quiet revolution that has received little public notice, schools embodying the principles of classical education--the education that gave us Western Civilization--are being organized across the country, teaching students at all grade levels and -
Good Housekeeping Goes After Bad Teachers
Opinion -One who can’t spell. Another who falls asleep in a class of 5-year-olds. Thanks to tenure job protection, it’s virtually impossible to fire either teacher. What’s a parent to do? -
Milwaukee Response Shows Friedman Was Right
Opinion -Limited as the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program is--enrolling only 1,650 of the city’s 70,000 school children--it has had a profound effect on the Milwaukee Public School System, according to New York Times columnist Brent Staples: In Milwaukee, -
Many Poor Families Choose Private Schools
Opinion -Although critics of vouchers label them as a giveaway to the rich, a new study of census data shows that only 11 percent of the children attending elementary parochial schools come from families earning over $50,000 a year. -
Plastics Lead Way in Health, Safety, Energy Efficiency
Opinion -Few movie-goers will forget the scene in The Graduate in which Dustin Hoffman’s character is pulled aside at his graduation party by an older gentleman with a bit of advice for the future: “Plastic. -
Virtual High School Now on the Internet
Opinion -Shrugging off the limitations of distance, time, and physical presence, technology and education have come together to create the first Virtual High School on the Internet, available on demand, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. -
What Parents Can Do
Opinion -Good Housekeeping recommends that parents take the following steps when they have concerns about their child’s teacher. 1. Go see for yourself: Get to know your child’s teacher as well as you can. 2. -
White House, Congress Play for Time on Kyoto
Opinion -The recently negotiated Kyoto Protocol is “dead on arrival,” according to Congressional opponents of the treaty who are, in the words of Senator Chuck Hagel (R- Nebraska), ready to “kill it on the Senate floor. -
EPA: New Clean Air Standards to Cost $46 Billion Annually
Opinion -Less than six months after President Clinton endorsed stringent new air quality standards for particulate matter (PM) and ground-level ozone, the Environmental Protection Agency has been forced to increase five-fold its original projections of the -
Farmers to Bear Brunt of New Clean Air Standards
Opinion -EPA is fond of saying that only “big polluters” need fear its new standards for ground-level ozone and particulate matter (PM). However, it turns out that one of the “big polluters” is the “family farm. -
What to Do with Three Billion Abandoned Tires?
Opinion -Few things are more unsightly than a pile of discarded tires. Unfortunately, America has quite a few such piles. There are about 3 billion abandoned tires in the U.S., with another 200 million being added each year. -
Swords Are Drawn After Kyoto
Opinion -By committing the United States to a series of far-reaching steps it says are necessary to combat the threat of global warming, the Clinton administration has set the stage for a dramatic confrontation with the Senate and other powerful segments of -
Property Owner Loses, But Property Rights Win in Supreme Court Ruling
Opinion -In a watershed decision, the Supreme Court has provided significant new access to federal courts for landowners. In its December 15 ruling on City of Chicago v. -
Virtual High School Now on Internet
Opinion -Shrugging off the limitations of distance, time, and physical presence, technology and education have come together to create the first Virtual High School on the Internet, available on demand, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. -
Competition in Education: Does it Make a Difference? An exclusive interview with Dr. Paul E. Peterson
Opinion -Dr. Paul E. Peterson's recent studies of voucher programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland have propelled him to the forefront of the educational choice debate. -
CER Workbook Provides Roadmap to Charter Schools
Opinion -Although there was only one charter school in the country when Bill Clinton was first elected to the White House in 1992, the President wants to see 3,000 charter schools in operation by the year 2000 when he prepares to step down. -
Consumers Have New Guide to Seattle Schools
Opinion -In November, The Seattle Times published a comprehensive guide to 535 public and private elementary, middle, and junior high schools in the greater Seattle area.