Opinion
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Florida Lawmakers Pass Merit Pay, Tenure Reforms
Opinion -Florida’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that would effectively end tenure for new teachers and establish a merit-pay system. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #9-8
Opinion -Keeping the Change Prison inmates in Wisconsin have a constitutional right to receive sex-change drugs while jailed, a federal judge in Milwaukee ruled recently. -
Internet Commerce Boomed in Past Decade
Opinion -American e-commerce has grown 400 percent over the past ten years, according to a study marking the 25th anniversary of the debut of the first Web site with the “dot-com” suffix. -
Interview: Value-Added Tax a ‘License to Steal’
Opinion -Olivier Garret grew up in France, where there has been a value-added tax since the 1950s. He describes the tax as “a license to steal. -
Bill Would Expand School Internet Program to Homes
Opinion -In the wake of the release of the National Broadband Plan by the Federal Communications Commission this spring, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) is pressing for action on his bill to expand the 14-year-old E-Rate program intended to close the “digital divide. -
Allegations of Standardized Test Cheating Spread
Opinion -Nearly 200 schools in Georgia have been implicated in what could be the largest standardized testing scandal in American history. -
FCC’s Broadband Plan Brings Spectrum Shortage to Light
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission’s new National Broadband Plan says the United States needs more broadcast spectrum opened up for wireless broadband use, with the assumption it’s being wasted by the traditional broadcast television -
Georgia Takes For-Profit Route for Charter Schools
Opinion -Although Georgia did not get chosen for the first round of federal Race to the Top funding, the Peach State is moving ahead of the reform pack as state and local officials turn increasingly to for-profit firms to help expand the state’s charter -
Colorado ‘Amazon Tax’ Raises Privacy Concerns
Opinion -Colorado’s new state Internet sales tax may not only diminish e-commerce in the state but also invade the privacy of residents who purchase goods online.The law signed in March by Gov. -
Federal Agents Walking the Social-Networking Beat
Opinion -Most Facebook users get a friend request from a stranger from time to time. It’s common knowledge the request may have been sent by a spammer. -
Low Scores Usher in Cal State University ‘Early Start’ Program
Opinion -The California State University Board of Trustees has approved a measure to require tens of thousands of students who perform poorly on the Early Assessment Program test in their junior year of high school to take remedial courses in math and English -
Amazon Tax Not Clicking in North Carolina
Opinion -Seeking to close its budget shortfall last year, North Carolina followed the lead of New York and Rhode Island in passing an Internet sales tax, which many have dubbed the Amazon Tax. -
Media Advisory: Florida Expands School Choice, Reaches for Merit Pay
Opinion -Florida’s low-income and minority students won a victory Thursday, April 9, when the state House of Representatives voted to expand the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, also known as Step Up for Students. -
White House ESEA ‘Blueprint’ Draws Fire
Opinion -Education reformers are expressing disappointment in the Obama administration’s “blueprint” to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, also known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. -
“The Cartel” opening across America
Opinion -"The Cartel," a documentary on the barriers to enacting real education reform, will be on April 30th, 2010 in numerous locations. -
Broadband Competition Still Brisk, More on Way
Opinion -Internet giants Comcast and AT&T raised the monthly rates for many of their plans by a few dollars each beginning in March—sparking some activist groups to say this proves there is not enough competition in broadband. -
Legislators Refuse to Cut Spending
Opinion -The strain due to the recession has left Hawaii scrambling to overcome its budget shortfalls ("Taxing Bills Gain Momentum," Star-Bulletin, April 7). -
International Flavor in May Climate Conference
Opinion -Mirroring the worldwide forum where the debate over climate change takes place, the fourth International Conference on Climate Change May 16-18 in Chicago will feature more than 27 foreign experts from a dozen nations. -
Analysis: FCC Should Not Grab ‘Title II’ Authority over Internet
Opinion -In 1996, Congress passed the landmark Telecommunications Act. -
Reverend Senator Presses for School Reform in Illinois
Opinion -Chicago is a company town where the main business is government. A key subsidiary of The Company is the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the city’s largest local employer. Like most big cities, Chicago dominates its state. -
States Resist Obama Plan for Tying Federal Money to National Standards
Opinion -Forty-eight states signed on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, an effort led by state governors and education officials to craft a uniform set of voluntary national standards for reading and mathematics. -
Senators Propose Broadband Speed Disclosure Rules
Opinion -According to the Federal Communications Commission, the broadband speed consumers experience lags behind what’s promised by their Internet service providers by as much 80 percent. -
MIT Professor’s Climate Change Op-Ed Proven False
Opinion -MIT professor Kerry Emanuel’s February 15 op-ed in the Boston Globe, “Climate Changes Are Proven Fact,” has many inaccuracies, and in my view it is not a positive contribution to the global warming debate. -
FCC’s National Broadband Plan Includes New Taxes
Opinion -The Federal Communication Commission’s “National Broadband Plan” includes several proposals to raise taxes on commerce on the Internet—a move that would require congressional action and could harm innovation, investment, and the
