Opinion
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EPA Ends Climate Awards Sponsorship
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will no longer sponsor the Climate Leadership Awards, a program honoring voluntary corporate actions to combat global warming. -
Arizona Group Gathers Signatures to Put ESA Expansion on Hold Pending Citizen Vote
Opinion -Activists opposing the expansion of Arizona’s education savings account (ESA) program say they’ve collected enough signatures to put the issue on the November 2018 ballot. -
Charter School Enrollment Hits Record High
Opinion -The number of U.S. students attending charter schools has hit a record high, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports. -
Thousands More Florida Kids Make it to College Thanks to School Choice Program
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #194 -
U.S. House Passes Bipartisan Energy Infrastructure Bills
Opinion -The U.S. House has approved two measures to expedite the federal government’s permitting and siting policies for oil and natural gas pipelines. -
Illinois Approves Tax-Credit Scholarship Program
Opinion -School choice proponents celebrated a victory in Illinois as the governor signed a budget that includes a tax-credit scholarship program. -
President Streamlines Infrastructure Construction
Opinion -President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order eliminating and streamlining some permitting regulations in order to speed the construction of critical infrastructure. -
Militant Public School Teacher Took Students to Antifa Protests, Lied about Absences, Records Show
Opinion -Yvette Felarca has a long history of documented workplace misconduct. -
Fossil Fuels Power Disaster Monitoring, Escape, Response, and Relief
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #263 -
Support of ‘Bourgeois Habits’ Embroils Professors in Dispute
Opinion -A recommendation to restore “bourgeois habits” is under fire at the University of Pennsylvania, revealing once again the deep conceptual divide in American campuses. -
Survey: Electric Vehicles Fail to Spark Consumer Sales
Opinion -The Chevy Bolt, touted by electric car advocates as the plug-in electric vehicle for the masses, has yet to make significant inroads into overall car and truck sales. -
Legislative Pulse: Alaska Fights Federal Overreach on Water, Wildlife
Opinion -Alaska state Sen. John Coghill (R-Fairbanks) explains why Alaska must maintain control of wildlife on public lands and construct new natural gas infrastructure. -
Flood Insurance Leaves Victims All Wet
Opinion -The twelve year U.S. major hurricane drought came to an end with landfalls by two Category 4 storms within three weeks. -
Arkansas Parents Fight for Local Control of District
Opinion -A group of Arkansas parents is demanding to know when the state will return their school district to local control. -
Study of Higher Ed’s Use of Private Firms to Develop Online Education Questioned
Opinion -A new report suggests private firms that public colleges and universities use to digitize learning may not have students’ best interests in mind, but education reformers contacted by School Reform News disagree strongly. -
Less Than One-Third of DC Students Score As ‘College and Career Ready’
Opinion -Scores from a national, standardized test show less than one-third of Washington, DC students are “college and career ready.” -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to GOP’s 2017 Tax Reform Plan
Opinion -"President Trump’s tax reform plan holds major promise for restoring booming economic growth to America" - Peter Ferrara -
Now It’s a War on Pipelines
Opinion -Efforts to block and sabotage pipelines hurt jobs, economic growth, middle class, human safety. -
Government Mandating Maximums And Minimums Is Almost Always Awful
Opinion -Those of us who understand rudimentary economics – and/or those of us who have paid any attention at all to the last half century-plus – know the government mandating maximums and minimums is a ridiculously bad idea. -
Florida Parents Could Face Arrest for Children’s Truancy
Opinion -Rising truancy levels in Florida schools have administrators considering taking legal action against parents. -
Portland Mayor Challenges President on Climate, Oregon on Air Pollution
Opinion -Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is challenging the state of Oregon over what he considers insufficient state action to reduce air pollution in Portland. -
Qatari Foundation Funds Arabic Courses in U.S. Public Schools
Opinion -A foundation from Qatar has spent millions of dollars funding Arabic courses in U.S. public schools in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reports. -
Congress May Block Offshore Wind Farm in Maryland
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives is considering legislation that could stymie a proposed offshore wind farm project off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. -
K-12 Disaster Shows Need for Fundamental Reforms
Opinion -The United States spends more than most developed countries on its education system, but our students rank lower than most on standardized international tests.
