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Minn. Online Physical Education Program Finds Niche
Opinion -While it may be a little early to say the trend is sweeping the nation, online physical education programs are gaining popularity in states from Florida to Minnesota. -
Seventeen States OK Cyber Charters
Opinion -Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Wyoming have laws authorizing cyber charter schools. -
Understanding Educational Innovation, Stagnation
Opinion -Editor's note: This is the first of a seven-part series showing why charter schools do not have the freedom needed to create significant educational improvements by means of innovation. -
Washington Considers Pesticide Notice Law
Opinion -The State of Washington's Department of Agriculture has proposed to require farmers to notify all area schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and day care centers whenever they apply pesticides to their fields. -
UK Scrutinizes Climate Change Economics; Calls for Comments
Opinion -In a major move away from global warming orthodoxy, the United Kingdom is currently in the process of studying the economic challenges of addressing climate change. -
Kelo Describes Aggressive Taking
Opinion -Prior to the November 3 House vote on H.R. -
Litigation Raising Health Care Costs, Study Says
Opinion -An October 2005 report from the Manhattan Institute shows the efforts of trial lawyers to target health care providers for profit are raising U.S. health care costs. Trial Lawyers, Inc. -
Medicare Experiments with Pay for Performance
Opinion -On November 14, 2005, the U.S. -
Long Waits for Health Care Plague Canada
Opinion -Canadians seeking health care continue to be plagued by long waits, according to a recent report from The Fraser Institute. -
Ohio Voters Approve $2 Billion ‘Jobs for Ohio’ Plan
Opinion -Ohio voters approved Issue 1, known as the "Jobs for Ohio" ballot initiative, in the November 8 election, giving a victory to Gov. -
TABOR Movement Picks Up Steam
Opinion -Last November, friends and foes of government spending limits had their eyes on Colorado, home to the nation's strongest Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR), a type of tax and expenditure limit (TEL). -
No Forced Sharing
Opinion -In his Two Treatises of Government that so influenced our founders, John Locke famously admonished that “the preservation of property” is the “end of government. -
Meet Municipal WiFi’s New Foes
Opinion -Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley says he is excited about making wireless broadband widely available in Chicago. -
Beware the Legacy Cable Guy
Opinion -In a move that makes Jim Carrey’s character in The Cable Guy look angelic, the California Cable and Telecommunications Association (CCTA) recently circulated a letter to Sacramento lawmakers in an attempt to scare them into protecting cable’s dominant -
Video Revolution Just Keeps Rollin’ Along
Opinion -Is there a week that goes by these days that we don’t hear about another stunning innovation on the media front? -
Fla. School Choice Advocates Push for Accountability
Opinion -In early December, school choice advocates in Florida were busy preparing for another legislative session focused on passing accountability legislation for the state's scholarship programs. -
Texas School Finance System Unconstitutional
Opinion -The Texas Supreme Court ruled November 22 that the state's school finance system--commonly referred to throughout the state as "Robin Hood" because it takes money from property-rich school districts and gives it to property-poor ones--is unconstitutional -
Heartland Institute Fellow Leads Project on Unintended Consequences
Opinion -Unintended consequences abound in politics and government, and in the private sector as well. Increased expenditures by school districts fail to bring the expected improvements in student achievement. High tax rates produce less revenue than lower rates. -
Power Motivates Unions
Opinion -Some wonder why the teacher unions, long so fervently opposed to charter schools, are now aggressively trying to recruit their teachers. Matthew J. -
Schools, Districts Weigh Web PE
Opinion -With the percentage of U.S. -
Law Banning Cyber Charter Schools May Be Harming Education in Rural Tennessee
Opinion -A report released by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research on October 31 suggests the state's three-year-old charter school law, which expressly prohibits the authorization of cyber charters, may be preventing thousands of rural students from -
Texas Students Routinely Promoted Without Passing
Opinion -According to a report released in late October by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), social promotions in the Lone Star State continue almost unabated three years after the beginning of a concentrated effort to end the practice of moving students to the -
Schools Should Share Services to Save, Study Says
Opinion -School districts across the country are constantly calling for more funds, but additional money might be available in their existing budgets if they'd take advantage of opportunities to share services with other districts, according to an October 2005 -
Book Review: A Crash Course in Profitable Politics
Opinion -Review of Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education Written by Chris Whittle (Riverhead Books, 2005) 269 pages, $16.