Opinion
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Have Alabama Schools Found Free Lunches?
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news, Editorial -Several dozen Alabama school districts are offering free lunches to all students this year. -
Homeschooling Gains Popularity with Oregon Parents
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Homeschooling is an increasingly popular option for Oregon parents who want to participate directly in their children’s education. -
Illinois School Principal’s Retirement Windfall Highlights Pension Problems
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The current structure of Illinois’ government pension and retirement plan may allow former Maine Township High School District 207 Principal Audrey Haugan to receive $7.137 million in benefits—almost 20 times more than she paid into her savings. -
Progressive Income-Tax Amendment Question Reaches Colorado Ballot
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Colorado voters will decide in November whether to approve a ballot measure that would replace the state’s flat income tax with a progressive tax and increase taxes on business owners and on individuals earning more than $150,000 per year. -
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Heartland Weekly: Heartland Challenges AEI on Climate
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of September 3, 2018 -
- Government & Politics
- Taxes
- Environment & Energy
- Government & Liberty
- Education
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Heartland Weekly – Energy Socialism Kills
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of August 27, 2018 -
Labor Day Needs an Education Revolution
Opinion -Editorial -With Labor Day on the horizon, many Americans are worried that automation will soon monopolize the job market. -
Alexa, What Is the Meaning of Life, and Do You Control It?
Opinion -Editorial -Alexa, are you a just-for-fun toy, or are you a super-serious genie that dwells in the mysterious computing cloud from which you will descend to be a player in every aspect of our existence? -
Educational Choice Must Truly be Free
Opinion -Editorial -Oscar Wilde once said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland on NewsmaxTV
Opinion -Editorial -Week of August 20, 2018 -
UVA’s Education School Distorts Own Study to Slam Vouchers
Opinion -Editorial -Even though most studies using the highest quality of research show that underprivileged children benefit academically when able to use vouchers to attend private schools, the political and educationist Left use any scrap of data. -
Heartland Weekly: AFEC Report: End CAFE Standards
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of August 13, 2018 -
Numerous Texas School Staff Members Earn Six-Figure Salaries, Study Finds
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Some 7,000 Texas government school staff and teachers account for $1 billion in annual costs to local and state taxpayers, a new report states. -
Colorado House Misses Chance to Break the Government-School Monopoly
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -As Colorado parents prepared to send their children back to school this fall, they faced yet another school year without a comprehensive educational tax credit system for those who wish to choose options other than the government-run school paradigm. -
- Government & Politics
- Climate Change
- Taxes
- Environment & Energy
- Government & Liberty
- Education
- Health Care
- Economy
Heartland Weekly: Watch All of AFEC 2018
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of August 6, 2018 -
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Education: The Homeschooling Option
Opinion -Editorial -Americans have lost faith in the public school system. Only 36 percent of U.S. parents have a “great deal” of support for public schools, according to a 2017 study by Gallup. -
Will Teacher Unions Imitate Southern Segregationists?
Opinion -Editorial -The Supreme Court’s Janus ruling is bringing out the worst from the defeated Left. -
Heartland Weekly: Anti-Carbon Tax Resolution Passed
Opinion -Editorial -Week of July 16, 2018 -
Snares to Beware in Potential Labor-Education Merger
Opinion -Editorial -By far, the biggest, boldest move under the Trump administration’s proposed executive-branch reorganization would be consolidation of the departments of Education and Labor, two behemoths of social policy. -
Heartland Weekly: Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Battle
Opinion -Editorial -Week of July 9, 2018 -
Supreme Court Favors Workers in Forced Union Dues Case
Opinion -budget-tax-news -In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled governments may not deduct union dues from the paychecks of public sector employees without their consent. -
Oklahoma Supreme Court Nixes Tax Hike Ballot Question
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Oklahoma Supreme Court disallowed a ballot question that would have given voters the opportunity to decide whether to accept a set of tax increases the state government enacted earlier this year. -
Follow the Money: Why Do Universities Oppose the Higher Education Bill?
Opinion -Editorial -When 39 university associations send an open letter to Congress expressing “grave reservations” about proposed legislation, you can be sure that money is involved. -
Chicago Public Schools Fail to Protect Students—Child Safety Accounts Can Help
Opinion -Editorial -Despite ample funding, CPS continues to fail across the board, student test scores remain dismal, and union leaders consistently put their interests ahead of students’ interests.
