Opinion
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Florida Officials Work to Reduce Testing
Opinion -Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has issued an executive order that suspends one test in his state’s schools for 11th grade students and called for legislation to review and reduce other testing. -
Obamacare’s Meager ‘Success’ Part II
Opinion -Judging by an article in The Atlantic yesterday, we're apparently supposed to be impressed with Obamacare's touted reduction of 16.4 million in the number of uninsured.The number of uninsured Americans has dropped by 16. -
Georgia Education Officials Look to New Orleans School Model for Inspiration
Opinion -Georgia education leaders face a dilemma mirrored in many states nationwide: Too many schools are failing too many students. -
Landscape and Ocean Changes, Not Carbon-Dioxide, Dominate Climate
Opinion -Review of Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism, by Jim Steele; self-published, June 2013, 331 pages; ISBN: 1490 390189, ISBN-13: 978-1490 390185; $22. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to House GOP Budget Proposal
Opinion -Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the House Budget Committee, unveiled a 2016 budget today that would, among many things, repeal the Affordable Care Act, block-grant Medicaid to the states, partially privatize Medicare, and cut $5. -
Mexican Wolf Gets Special Endangered Species Status
Opinion -More contact between wolves and humans is in store as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to list Mexican gray wolves as endangered but with a special designation.Mexican gray wolves were nearly extinct 40 years ago. -
Better Price Controls Still Not the Answer
Opinion -Apparently the 'better' price controls proposed by Medicare to deal with the problem of hospitals hanging on to patients just long enough for higher reimbursement rates to kick in aren't going to be good enough. -
Virginia Legalizes Ridesharing Services
Opinion -Virginia Gov. -
East Baton Rouge Superintendent Battles Education Reforms
Opinion -Bernard Taylor, outgoing public school superintendent for the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, unveiled a plan late February to create several clusters of schools to compete with area charter schools. -
Rewards, Education, and the Culture of Poverty
Opinion -For some children, a “culture of poverty” severely limits the opportunities they have to benefit from structured play and enrollment in out-of-school programs. -
Missouri Earns ‘F’ Grade on 2015 Welfare Reform Report Card
Opinion -House Speaker John Diehl, Sen. David Sater, Sen. Tom Dempsey,and Rep. -
How Rewarding Students Can Improve Educational Outcomes
Opinion -Review of Rewards: How to use rewards to help children learn—and why teachers don’t use them well, by Herbert J. Walberg and Joseph L. Bast, The Heartland Institute, 210 pages, $14. -
Virginia May Allow Homeschool Students on Public School Teams
Opinion -Virginia House Bill 1626 would give public schools the option of allowing homeschool students to participate in their athletic programs and other activities. -
Maryland Lawmakers Propose Cigarette Tax to Boost Budgets
Opinion -State lawmakers in Maryland are considering whether to raise cigarette taxes from $2.00 per pack to $3.00 per pack. -
Ohio House Passes Bill to Protect Students Opting Out of Common Core Tests
Opinion -The Ohio House of Representatives has passed legislation to protect students from punishment when opting out of testing aligned with Common Core standards. House Bill 7 passed unanimously in February. -
Climate Science: Republicans Fight for It, EPA Director Doesn’t Understand It
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #163 Within the space of a week, we’ve seen the two extremes, abject ignorance and informed commentary, on the state of climate science from different branches of the national government. In late February, Sens. -
Yucca Mountain Declared Safe for Nuclear Waste Storage
Opinion -The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined it would be safe to operate a nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The NRC completed the last two volumes of its five-volume safety evaluation in January. -
Same Rationing, Different Name
Opinion -One of the key features of government-run health care is rationing through politics, whereby elected officials and unelected bureacurats get to decide, indirectly at least, how much health care people can have and when they can obtain it. -
Congresswoman Calls for New Safety Rules on Detergent
Opinion -Rep. Jackie Speier of California is proposing a bill directing the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue new rules establishing safety standards for liquid detergent packets. -
Life is Good in St. Louis
Opinion -The headline line in the Sunday St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked "Are St. Louis Area's Home Prices too Low?” This is could not possibly have appeared describing any major metropolitan area of Australia, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom. -
Health Benefit Mandates Are Unnecessary
Opinion -There are probably more myths about health care public policy than anyone outside the mathematics department at MIT can put a number to. I recently ran across one of the more uninformed myths, one that has led to a great deal of bad public policy. -
Lazy for a Living: Why Some Millennials Never Need to Work Again
Opinion -My grandparents were a part of the “greatest generation” and my parents’ generation ushered in the modern technological era, but it’s my generation—popularly referred to as the “Millennials”— that will bear the distinct mark of being the first group of -
Groundwater Regulation Stays With States
Opinion -The U.S. Senate has rejected an effort to repeal the provision of the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempting gas drilling and extraction from federal requirements in the underground injection control program of the Safe Drinking Water Act. -
Education Savings Accounts Catching On in Additional States
Opinion -Education Savings Accounts were first approved in Arizona in 2012 as a statewide reform. An ESA program underwent a fast implementation process in Florida in 2014, where this year 1,600 students received funds.