Opinion
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Kentucky Parent Holds Educators Accountable
Opinion -Richard Innes might be one of Kentucky's chief public education watchdogs, but he'll be the first to tell you he stumbled into the job. In 1994, Innes was alarmed by his daughter's performance on a Kentucky assessment test. -
John Walton’s Legacy Provides Solid Foundation for School Choice Efforts
Opinion -John Walton, who passed away at age 58 in a plane crash in June, was an heir to the Wal-Mart fortune and one of the wealthiest people in the world. -
Environmental Science Book a Good Buy for All
Opinion -Environmental Science: A Self-Teaching Guide by Barbara Murck, Ph.D. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005 $19. -
Analysis: Time to Consider Education Savings Accounts
Opinion -As vouchers and tax credits move from theory to practice in cities and states across the country, greater attention is being focused on matters of program design. -
Ohio Creates One of the Nation’s Largest Voucher Programs
Opinion -In a year already marked by several legislative victories for the school choice movement nationwide, Ohio is poised to become the state with the largest voucher program in the country by next fall. Gov. -
Quick Facts on Texas Charter Schools
Opinion -20: Number of first-generation charters granted to publicly funded nonreligious schools in the inaugural year, 1996-97. 190: Number of charters operating in Texas in 2003-04. 274: Number of campuses those charters operated in 2003-04. -
Pennsylvania Expands Tax Credit Program
Opinion -The new Pennsylvania state education budget for the 2005-06 academic year, signed on July 13 by Gov. -
Fifty Years Closer to Choice
Opinion -In considering the role government plays in various areas of life in 1955, Milton Friedman cast his discerning eye on education and saw a Six Million Dollar Man. -
Special Election to Decide Key Education Issues in California
Opinion -California schools are in trouble--both fiscally and academically. On July 8, the California controller's office reported that, after years of deficit spending, 552 school districts overspent a total of $682 million in the 2003-04 school year. -
Kansas Court Takes Over School Finance Decisions
Opinion -On June 3, the supreme court of Kansas issued a ruling in Montoy v. Kansas requiring the state legislature to appropriate an additional $853 million per year to Kansas elementary and high schools. -
Brownback Generates Welcome Stir over Expanding DC Voucher Program
Opinion -Refreshing breezes are difficult to come by on Capitol Hill in midsummer, but Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) created an invigorating stir in late June when he broached the idea of expanding the federally funded Washington, DC school voucher experiment. -
EDVentures Highlights Need for Supplemental Services
Opinion -More than 300 education entrepreneurs from across the country gathered in Baltimore in late July for the 15th annual EDVentures conference, convened by the Education Industry Association (EIA), to discuss standards for excellence and how the No Child -
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Kansas Schools Get Budget Boost
Opinion -Kansas lawmakers, under threat the state’s high court would close down the state’s public education system, have given public schools even more money than the Kansas Supreme Court ordered on June 3. -
NCLB Expansion in High Schools Concerns Congress, Governors
Opinion -The prospect of President George W. Bush's achieving a stated second-term goal of expanding the influence of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in high school reform looked bleak after a series of congressional actions this spring. -
Private Companies May Take Over Some Florida Schools
Opinion -The Florida State Board of Education announced this spring it may grant outside organizations, including for-profit companies, management of some of the state's persistently low-performing schools--a decision frowned upon by some Florida school districts. -
Defeats, Some Victories Scored by School Choice Supporters
Opinion -As many state legislative sessions drew to a close for 2005, the fate of several school choice initiatives was decided for the year. In Arizona on May 20, Gov. -
Maine Prepares NCLB Lawsuit
Opinion -The state of Maine is moving to become the next state to sue the federal government over the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As many as 17 states already have brought suit. -
School Choice Is Good Politics in New Zealand
Opinion -An education policy that leans toward giving parents their choice of schools and schools control of their finances and curricula has been released by New Zealand's leading opposition party in the build-up to the country's general election to be held this -
U.S. Public Schools Failing to Combat Predatory Employees
Opinion -Julia Haich had been misled by the school she trusted to protect her, and now another girl was suffering. -
Are Tax Credits Really Not ‘Public Money’?
Opinion -Some education policy analysts say tuition tax credit programs such as Arizona's, which a federal district court judge on March 24 upheld as constitutional, are preferable to vouchers because they do not involve "public money" and are therefore less -
2,000 March for School Choice in Florida
Opinion -TALLAHASSEE--As Florida Supreme Court justices heard arguments on June 7 in a court case challenging the state's Opportunity Scholarship program, more than 2,000 parents, teachers, and school administrators rallied outside the building to show their -
Colorado Homeschoolers Fear New State Database Threatens Freedom
Opinion -Homeschool activists in Colorado knew they had reason to be wary of the new majority in the state legislature, but they also were disappointed by one of their allies this spring when Gov. -
Defective Educational Philosophy Is Real Culprit in K-12 Education Failures
Opinion -Review of Doomed to Fail: The Built-in Defects of American Education by Paul A. Zoch Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004, 237 pages, ISBN 1-56663-567-5, $26.95 Paul A.
