Opinion
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$200 Million Boost for Private Vouchers
Opinion -In an unprecedented move that has catapulted the private voucher movement into national prominence, entrepreneur-philanthropist Ted Forstmann has unveiled the Children's Scholarship Fund, a private foundation that will award $200 million in scholarships -
Milwaukee Voucher Victory
Opinion -In the most resounding victory for parental choice in education in decades, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), rejecting voucher opponents who challenged the program’s inclusion of sectarian schools. -
EPA Challenged for Funding Anti-Highway Groups
Opinion -While Congress and the President spent months negotiating, and finally passed, a $215 billion "highway bill," the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appears to be traveling an entirely different road, directing its money to environmental and transit -
President Clinton: School Choice Supporter?
Opinion -In a letter read at the June 9 Children’s Scholarship Fund announcement, President Bill Clinton praised the Fund for "helping to widen the circle of educational opportunity. -
Five Steps Up to Full School Choice: Table
Opinion -Outlines choice options, from no choice (the status quo for most students) to choice including religious schools. Five Steps Up to Full School Choice Choice Policy Level of Choice Result Examples Choice should include religious schools. -
Clinton Kills K-12 Education Savings Accounts . . .
Opinion -After addressing an adoring audience of public school teachers at the annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers, President Bill Clinton returned to the White House and wasted no time in giving the labor union just what it wanted: a veto of -
Lessons Learned on the Voucher Front
Opinion -Using a military analogy to derive winning strategy and tactics in the struggle for parental choice in education, Daniel McGroarty reviews a number of recent school choice campaigns in a new booklet published by the Milton and Rose D. -
Heritage Rivers Opposition Collapses
Opinion -Opposition to President Clinton’s American Heritage Rivers Initiative (AHRI) appears to have all but collapsed in the U. S. House of Representatives. -
Sensenbrenner: EPA Settlement with NRDC Looks Too Much Like Kyoto Treaty Implementation
Opinion -In a further escalation of tensions between Congress and the White House over global warming policy, House Science Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin) has voiced strong objections to a proposed consent agreement he says represents an -
No Link Found between Global Warming and Mosquito-borne Diseases
Opinion -The popular belief that mosquito-borne diseases--chief among them malaria, dengue, and yellow fever--will spread if global temperatures start to rise ignores both science and history, an infectious-disease expert told a briefing for Congressional -
Century-Old Mining Law Not Yet Out-of-Date, Report Says
Opinion -The 1872 federal Mining Law, which governs the right to mine gold, silver, copper, uranium, and other hardrock minerals from federal lands, works much better than its critics contend, according to a new analysis by PERC, a Bozeman, Montana-based think -
Child-Centered School Funding: Key to Education Reform
Opinion -Knotty issues of school finance and school construction, raised by state courts in Arizona and Ohio and plaguing state legislatures nationwide, would be addressed by a “child-centered” approach to education funding that differs dramatically from the -
CO2 Regulation Would Affect One Million Smaller Businesses
Opinion -EPA’s threat to classify carbon dioxide (CO2) as a regulated “pollutant” would generate an enormous bureaucracy and impose legal and economic burdens on at least one million businesses, “the entire heart of the American economy,” according to a study -
Don’t Like the Weather? Don’t Blame it on Global Warming
Opinion -In recent years, advocates of the global warming theory have convinced many Americans that virtually any weather-related calamity is evidence that human-induced global warming is underway. -
Federal Court Rejects EPA Secondhand Smoke Study
Opinion -In one of the most embarrassing setbacks for EPA in recent memory, a federal judge has thrown out the agency’s landmark 1993 risk assessment linking secondhand smoke to cancer. -
Study: EPA Botched Analysis of Great Lakes Initiative
Opinion -Heralded by environmental groups as an example of cost-effective regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Initiative (GLI) will cost U.S. businesses and taxpayers an astounding $1 million for every $5.00 in benefits it produces. -
The Ups and Downs of Paycheck Protection
Opinion -In 1992, Washington became the first state in the nation to pass a campaign reform initiative, Initiative 134, that required businesses and labor unions to obtain employees' written consent before money was deducted from their paychecks for political -
We Cannot Afford to Wait Any Longer
Opinion -While the clout of most politicians declines after leaving office, just the opposite is happening to former Democratic Congressman Floyd H. Flake. -
Where There’s Fuel, There’s Bound to be Wildfire
Opinion -When Vice President Al Gore claimed there was a 1 in 1,000 chance that the wildfires that ravaged Florida during June and July would have occurred without global warming, he actually overstated the odds. -
White House Releases Economic Analysis on Global Warming
Opinion -The White House has forwarded to Congress a detailed report outlining an Administration analysis that concludes the United States can meet the emissions reductions mandated by the Kyoto climate change treaty at "modest" cost to the economy. -
Earth Day 1998: Coalition Demands that EPA Punish Real Polluters, Not Paperwork Errors
Opinion -At a Washington, DC Earth Day briefing on April 22, a coalition of groups led by the National Center for Policy and CREA (???) called on the federal government to ease the environmental regulatory burden on American citizens and businesses. -
Charter School Notes
Opinion -If a charter school's goal is something vague, like developing good citizens, it will be much more difficult for the school's sponsors to authorize whether a charter should be renewed or not, warns a March 16 report from the University of Minnesota's -
Solid Advances in School Choice Reported
Opinion -Nearly 32 states considered a school choice program of some kind in 1997, and at least 45 governors stated their support for different degrees of school choice or charter schools, according to a new report from The Heritage Foundation. -
Indiana U. Voucher Analysis Labeled “Faulty”
Opinion -Contradicting the findings of an analysis conducted by Indiana University's School of Education, Harvard University researchers conclude from a re-analysis of the data that, in fact, students in Cleveland's choice schools show academic gains in all