Opinion
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12/1997 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Colorado * Florida * Illinois New York * North Carolina * Wisconsin CALIFORNIA Show Us the Money! -
Survey: Education Teachers Out of Touch with Real World
Opinion -Teacher education programs often fail to prepare teachers for the challenges of teaching in the real world, say two out of three education professors recently surveyed by Public Agenda, the non-partisan New York-based research group. -
Ready to Learn What? Is the Key to Education Reform
Opinion -In his 1987 book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, educator E.D. Hirsch demonstrated that literacy has two key components: the ability to read, and an assumed base of shared factual knowledge conveyed by the words being read. -
Legislation Would Sink EPA/FDA Ban on Asthma Inhalers
Opinion -A bipartisan effort is underway in Congress to snuff out an administration proposal that would ban most types of asthma inhalers. -
Sound Science and the EPA: An Insider’s Perspective
Opinion -David L. Lewis has a Ph.D. in microbial ecology and works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He also serves on the Graduate Faculty of the University of Georgia. -
Discharge Petition Would Bring PM, Ozone Bill to a Vote
Opinion -House opponents of EPA's new standards on particulate matter (PM) and ground-level ozone are circulating a discharge petition aimed at bringing the new rules up for a vote. The petition was initiated by Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota). -
Coalition Calls For More Voucher Pilots
Opinion -In a rare liberal-conservative partnership, a broad coalition of progressive leaders from Evangelicals for Social Action joined prominent Republican conservative members of the Renewal Alliance at a September luncheon meeting to launch the “Public -
Florida Education Needs Structural Change, Not More Money: Study
Opinion -Although teacher unions and administrators are promoting a voter initiative to increase public education’s share of Florida’s state budget, a new study shows that the Sunshine State already spends more on education than it spends on any other program -
Litigation Is the Price We Pay for Our Success
Opinion -Although several school choice options have been approved in states across the country, almost all have been subjected to vigorous court challenges. -
Try Vouchers, Philly Panel Told
Opinion -Two Democratic state elected officials told a special panel charged with restructuring Pennsylvania’s urban schools that vouchers should be considered to remedy the problems of the state’s public education system. -
Virginia Sets New Standards for Schools
Opinion -As the final step in the transformation of its public education system, which began in 1995 with the adoption of revised Standards of Learning, the Virginia State Board of Education on September 4 approved new Standards of Accreditation for its public -
Study: ISTEA is ‘Going Down the Wrong Road’
Opinion -A bill renewing the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) "is the biggest pork barrel in the 105th Congress," according to the author of a new study published by the Washington-based Cato Institute. -
Non-Governmental Organizations Wield Great Influence Over Climate Treaty
Opinion -For much of its history, the United Nations has relied heavily on the participation of non-governmental organizations--self-appointed guardians of the environment and the public good. -
Nation’s Leading Property Rights Experts to Gather for New York State Conference
Opinion -People want to believe that private property restrictions affect only wealthy families with thousands of acres of land, or large corporations that don’t care about their property. -
World Bank Serves as PR Firm in Support of Global Warming Treaty
Opinion -"As fires continue to smoulder in Indonesia and El Nino heightens anxiety about global warming, hundreds of the world's scientists, economists, lawyers, and policy makers have come to Washington this week to work on protecting the planet's ecosystem. -
Congressional Report Slams White House on Utah Land-Grab
Opinion -The Clinton administration's controversial designation last year of 1. -
Worried White House Sacks Wirth
Opinion -On the eve of the UN-sponsored global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, the Clinton White House parted company with its controversial lead negotiator on the global warming issue. -
Chicago: Still the Nation’s Worst Public Schools
Opinion -In 1988, then-Secretary of Education William Bennett came to Chicago and declared its schools to be "the worst in the nation." Events since then suggest that the trend has been to even lower depths. -
Are School Boards In Charge?
Opinion -Earlier this year, Mary Bills, former president and 12-year veteran of the Milwaukee school board, introduced a resolution highlighting the historic lack of board involvement and public attention to collective bargaining. -
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. -
Court Decisions Offer New Approach for Resisting Federal Mandates
Opinion -Four recent Supreme Court decisions have re-established the Constitution as the law of the land, giving American landowners a new method for countering EPA and other government agency efforts to trample private property rights. -
D.C. Voucher Proposal Still Alive in Congress
Opinion -On November 9, the U.S. Senate approved by voice vote a bill to provide scholarships for low-income children in Washington, D.C. The bill now goes to the House, which earlier this year approved the proposal when it came as part of the D.C. -
Detroit Baptists Lean toward Vouchers
Opinion -For the past year, a group of black ministers from Detroit has been examining educational choice programs in an effort to identify ways of improving education for all children. -
Expert: New Air Standards May Undermine Public Health
Opinion -Warning that EPA's move to revise standards for particulate matter (PM) and ground-level ozone have "huge implications in terms of public health and the environment," one of the nation's leading experts on air pollution has urged policy-makers to "wait