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School Choice Legislation Is All the Rage in 2005
Opinion -To date, 2005 has been a banner year for school choice legislation, with at least 17 states considering choice proposals. In addition, President George W. -
Distance Education on Rise in U.S., Study Shows
Opinion -A new survey from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reveals approximately one-third of the nation's school districts offer distance-learning courses and 72 percent of them plan to expand their offerings. -
Study Shows Nevada Home, Private Schools Save Districts Millions
Opinion -A new study by the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) finds homeschooled students save Nevada taxpayers millions of dollars each year, refuting the notion that homeschooling costs school districts funding. -
States Legislators Group Calls for NCLB Overhaul
Opinion -In late February, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) issued a report challenging the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), strongly questioning its constitutionality and many of its provisions. -
Position Available: Independent Institute, Oakland, California
Opinion -The rapidly growing Independent Institute is currently seeking an Associate Director of Development. -
Crichton’s State of Fear Lauded in Congress
Opinion -Best-selling novels are not often praised in Senate floor speeches. Of course, it is not often that best-selling novels offer riveting discourse on important scientific research and public policy matters. On January 4, Sen. -
California Considers Stringent Ozone Standard
Opinion -The staff of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has proposed a stringent new eight-hour ozone standard for California. It would be the toughest in the nation and far more stringent than the U.S. -
Consumers Lose Round in Battle over Specialty Hospitals
Opinion -On March 8, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)--ignoring its own research and new studies showing the benefits of competition and specialization--recommended to Congress that it extend the moratorium on development of new specialty -
Obesity Scandal
Opinion -In March 2004, Tommy Thompson, then Secretary of the U.S. -
Technology Can Improve Long-Term Living
Opinion -Dramatic changes in science and technology are under way. Our country will experience as much scientific discovery and innovation over the next 25 years as it did the entire last century, which will profoundly impact our concept of aging. -
New Index Provides Efficiency and Effectiveness Ratings for Minnesota Schools
Opinion -A new study by former Minnesota Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke examines the state's school districts to identify how effective and efficient they are at directing money toward educational improvement. -
Goldwater Institute Creates Public Student Spending Database
Opinion -A January 19 report from the Goldwater Institute and Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation deconstructs Arizona's school funding formulas and translates them into per-student amounts every Arizonan can access. -
Charter Schools: Thirteen Years and Still Growing
Opinion -Charter schools--those public schools that must recruit students and fulfill the terms of a contract or risk losing state funding--continue to grow nationwide, both in number and in enrollment. -
Junk Science: Himalayan Glacier Alarms
Opinion -The winter of 2004-2005 delivered heavy snowfall throughout Asia's Himalaya Mountains, and regional glaciers are at or beyond their customary reach, according to the March 13 issue of Insurance Digest. -
Conrad Meier, Rest in Peace
Opinion -Conrad Meier, one of the nation’s leading advocates of market-based reform of health care, passed away unexpectedly on March 18, 2005. He was 69 years old. -
A Jaundiced Look at Consumerism
Opinion -The New Republic has published a major article called "Medicine and the Free Market. The Health of Nations," by Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. The article is broken into several sections. -
A review of Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer
Opinion -Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer by Patrick Moore $20.00 paper, 151 pages; Greenspirit Enterprises Ltd., September 2000 ISBN 0968640400 I share a heritage with Patrick Moore, the author of Green Spirit. -
Advertisement: Pre-Conference Workshops Announced for Institute 2005
Opinion -At "Institute 2005," the annual meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), to be held June 8-10, 2005 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, more than 2,300 health care professionals will gather to discuss issues ranging from health care's changing -
Ecoterrorist Will Spend Seven Years in Federal Prison
Opinion -A federal judge ruled on April 18 that 24-year-old William Jensen Cottrell should serve more than seven years in federal prison and pay more than $3. -
Federal Court Upholds Arizona Tax Credits
Opinion -Ruling in what school choice advocates have called "the most frivolous" challenge ever filed against a school choice program, a federal district court judge on March 24 upheld Arizona's scholarship tax credit program as constitutional, dismissing a -
Friedman Report School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arizona * Maine * Maryland * Missouri New Hampshire * South Carolina * Wisconsin ARIZONA School Choice Advances in Arizona The Arizona Senate passed legislation in March that would give tuition grants of up to $4,500 to private school -
Homeschoolers Protected by New Utah Law
Opinion -A bill shielding homeschooling parents from requirements that they meet state credential standards and give public school officials records of what they teach passed unanimously in both houses of the Utah legislature in February. -
How to Reduce the Risk of Nutritional Diseases
Opinion -The United States is experiencing an epidemic of diseases related to poor nutrition. Rates of heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, and obesity are all rising rapidly. -
Left-Leaning Donors Skewing Climate Change Research
Opinion -In the climate change debate, or more generally for any environmental issue, there exists a widespread assumption that funds provided by "big business" are used to promote falsehoods, while funds going to environmental organizations represent the
