Opinion
-
Congressional Leaders Call for Head Start Probe
Opinion -Congressional leaders have asked the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative agency of Congress, to inspect the financial controls and monitoring practices of the Head Start program before Congress acts to reauthorize the preschool program. -
Construction Plan for Better Teachers: Deregulation
Opinion -To Build a Better Teacher: The Emergence of a Competitive Education Industry Robert Gray Holland (Praeger Paperback, 2004; 168 pages, $24, ISBN: 0897898869) Getting better teachers is one of Diane Ravitch’s recommendations for combatting The -
IRS to Audit NEA
Opinion -According to a November 24 news release from the Landmark Legal Foundation, “the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has launched an investigation into whether the National Education Association (NEA) has violated federal tax law by spending millions in -
What Dangerous Schools?
Opinion -Under the No Child Left Behind Act, parents whose children are in “persistently dangerous” public schools are allowed to transfer their children to a safer learning environment at the district’s expense. -
School Choice Continues to Build Global Momentum
Opinion -Recent weeks have brought new evidence of growing support for parental choice in a wide variety of nations. -
When Principals Can Be Entrepreneurs, Schools Improve
Opinion -If principals were put in charge of their individual schools and allowed to run them as small businesses, is it likely the schools would be more successful than if the schools and their resources were directed by a central office? -
Senate Approves Expansion of Milwaukee Voucher Program
Opinion -On October 22, the Wisconsin Senate approved a measure to eliminate the enrollment cap placed on the Milwaukee voucher program, which limits participants to 15 percent of the enrollment in the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), or about 15,000 students. -
Competing Questions
Opinion -Final Vote 1A – 38 percent 1B – 35 percent 1C – 27 percent Maine Municipal Association’s Citizen Initiative (1A) The MMA Citizen’s Initiative requires the state to immediately fund 55% of the total K-12 education allocation. -
Uneducated Youth Threaten America’s Future
Opinion -Despite an increasing awareness that the U.S. -
Making the Ideal Public School the Enemy of Choice
Opinion -Choice With Equity: An Assessment by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, edited by Paul T. -
America’s Desperate Need for School Vouchers
Opinion -One of the objections frequently raised by voucher opponents is that there aren’t enough seats available in private schools, and so private schools would choose the students, rather than parents choosing the schools. -
An Uncomfortable Analysis of the Racial Learning Gap
Opinion -In their new book No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (Simon & Schuster, October 2003; 352 pages, $26. -
Identifying the Real Costs of Public Education
Opinion -Public Education As a Business: Real Costs and Accountability, by Myron Lieberman and Charlene K. Haar (Scarecrow Press, 2003; 232 pages; $32. -
Badly Designed Programs Will Stymie School Choice
Opinion -A new policy study from the Cato Institute provides policymakers with a practical guide for crafting successful school choice programs—ones that are likely to advance the development of a free market in education and avoid the creation of flawed programs -
While DC Choice Simmers, NCLB Slow to Settle
Opinion -The fate of President George W. Bush’s proposal to bring school choice to District of Columbia parents continued to hang in the balance as this issue went to press in early November. -
District Drops Successful Singapore Math Program
Opinion -Students in four Maryland schools who were taught using the Singapore Math program significantly outperformed their peers who were not in the program, according to a school system study released in February. -
Maine Voters Can’t Agree on Economy-Busting School Funding Plans
Opinion -Maine voters went to the polls on November 4 for a Referendum Election that presented six questions addressing everything from horse racing and casinos to bond issues for higher education and highways. -
Amid NCLB Negativism, Bright Spots Appear
Opinion -For the second year in a row, thousands of American schoolchildren are failing to receive the benefits of the limited educational choice to which they are entitled under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. -
12/2003 Friedman Report Profile: Virginia Walden Ford
Opinion -Virginia Walden Ford’s energetic yet assured and level leadership has been central to the progress achieved by voucher advocates in the District of Columbia. -
12/2003 Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Colorado * Florida Georgia * Minnesota CALIFORNIA Teacher Union Gives Dean Early Endorsement With eight other Democratic candidates still in the race and the Presidential election still more than a year away, the California -
Black-White Achievement Gap Is Widening
Opinion -Although a new report about the education of blacks in the U.S. shows evidence of some progress, U.S. -
Decentralizing Hawaii’s Public School System
Opinion -Hawaii’s current education system is highly centralized, despite the dispersed geographic nature of a multi-island state and the unique needs of individual communities. -
Do What’s Right: an exclusive interview with Robert E. Gallagher
Opinion -Parochial school administrators may do their best to keep tuition as low as possible, but often it is privately funded scholarships that make education at a private school a reality for many children from low-income families in the inner city. -
Frist and Hastert Urged to Support DC Scholarships
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: On October 21, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Speaker J.
