Opinion
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Credibility of Indiana U. Voucher Study Questioned
Opinion -Although a new evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Pilot Program shows that 94 out of 3,000 voucher students score no better than students in public schools, a researcher is questioning the credibility of the base test scores used by the -
Thompson-Levin Regulatory Improvement Bill Wins Converts
Opinion -A strong bipartisan regulatory improvement bill is advancing in the U.S. Senate. According to one of its lead sponsors, Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee), S. -
The British Are Coming … and Bringing School Reform Lessons
Opinion -Although Americans rejected certain aspects of the British system of government more than two hundred years ago, it is still instructive to compare how the two countries view the appropriate role of government in areas of common interest. -
Engineers Blast U.S. Education, Embrace Charter Schools
Opinion -The nation's education system, ill-prepared to equip today's students for the technology-oriented workplace of the twenty-first century, is in need of systemic reform, according to a special report in the April issue of the engineering trade journal IEEE -
How to Achieve Success for School Choice
Opinion -Although many consider support from politicians to be key to the success of an education reform proposal, a prominent school choice advocate warns that politicians are only one element of a successful reform campaign. -
Courts Spur Tax Revolts, Not Better Schools
Opinion -New Hampshire legislators are struggling to devise a response to last December's ruling from their Supreme Court, which found that the state's current method of funding public schools with local property taxes is unconstitutional and that the state has -
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators Dispels Popular Myths
Opinion -Though the public continues to express a great deal of pessimism and anxiety about the environment, a recently completed wide-ranging analysis of environmental trends in the U.S. and Canada shows that such fears are misplaced. -
The Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: Key Findings
Opinion -Air Quality Perception: Air quality is worsening as pollution levels rise and pose a serious threat to human health. Reality: Since 1980, there has been an overall improvement in air quality by more than 40 percent. -
15,000 Scientists Urge Congress to Reject Global Warming Treaty
Opinion -More than 15,000 basic and applied American scientists, two-thirds with advanced degrees, have signed a petition calling on the U.S. government to reject the global warming agreement negotiated last December in Kyoto. -
Education Is Top Voter Concern in Arizona
Opinion -When nearly half of Arizona voters grade the state's K-12 public education as only "fair" or "poor," it's not surprising that schools/education is ranked as the most important issue for the governor and state legislature to address, according to a recent -
EPA Environmental Justice Initiative Threatens Inner Cities
Opinion -“Across the nation, abandoned industrial properties are robbing communities and neighborhoods of the opportunity to share in the nation’s economic progress. -
Lack of Choice Segregates Cities
Opinion -Lack of choice in schooling has helped segregate U.S. -
Lessons from IBM, Xerox and Scouting
Opinion -The Student's Not the Problem. When several students don't "get" the lesson being taught by one of IBM's more than 7,000 teachers, the assumption is not that the student is the problem. -
Lessons from the Tuition Tax Credit Wars
Opinion -Kristin J. Robbins, executive director of Minnesotans for School Choice, summarizes for School Reform News readers the three lessons learned this year in the battle to protect tuition tax credits in Minnesota. Lesson #1: Stay Vigilant. -
Maine Court Hears School Choice Argument
Opinion -On April 10, the Washington, DC-based Institute for Justice presented oral arguments in Portland, Maine, before Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Nancy Mills, challenging the exclusion of religious schools from Maine's rural school choice -
Minnesotans Want School Reform, Not More Taxes
Opinion -Only one in five Minnesotans wants state legislators to spend the state's $1. -
New Hampshire Senate Approves Local Choice Plan
Opinion -With all Republicans and one Democrat voting Yes, the New Hampshire State Senate approved Senator James M. Rubens' parental choice and tuition reimbursement bill by a 16-8 vote on April 2. -
New Study Supports Oft-Criticized Mining Law
Opinion -Critics of the 1872 Mining Law, which governs metal mining on federal lands, are wrong when they contend it is an environmentally destructive giveaway to corporate mining interests. -
Regulation Plagued by Unintended Consequences
Opinion -The Committee on Economic Development’s Modernizing Government Regulation report identifies a host of unintended consequences that result from the regulatory system’s disregard of sound science, cost-benefit comparisons, and, in some cases, common -
Regulations Cost Families 20 Percent of Income
Opinion -As Congress continues to ponder the fate of regulatory reform legislation, a new study shows how federal mandates are eating away at family incomes. -
Texas Gets First District-Wide Voucher Program
Opinion -For the first time ever, thousands of students in an entire Texas school district will be able to exercise school choice through a new, privately funded, voucher program. -
The Future of Environmental Policy: Free Market Environmentalism: an exclusive interview with Fred L. Smith Jr.
Opinion -Fred L. Smith Jr. is the president and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a public interest group active in a wide range of economic and environmental public policy issues. -
Beyond Affirmative Action
Opinion -The angry affirmative-action dispute between the U.S. -
Governors Call for Reform
Opinion -At its annual winter meeting in Washington, the National Governors’ Association (NGA) on February 22 overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging Congress “to immediately pass regulatory reform legislation that would require federal regulatory agencies