Opinion
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Relentlessly Pursuing School Choice: an exclusive interview with Howard L. Fuller
Opinion -“I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. It was a grand achievement, and I prized it highly. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom. ... -
Table: Early Estimate Data for 2001-2002
Opinion -Early Estimate Data for 2001-2002 (47.6 million students, 3.0 million teachers, $405.8 billion in revenue, 2. -
The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Cleveland Vouchers Fulfill Two Children's Different Needs Eleven-year-old Charlotte Reed is on her way to Harvard. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-6
Opinion -He’s Demanding a Lifetime Subscription to Penthouse A man who uses a wheelchair has sued a Florida strip club because an area where private lap dances are performed is up a flight of stairs and inaccessible to him. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-5
Opinion -Win Big! Lie in Front of a Train The New York Times reports a New York City woman was awarded $14.1 million by a state supreme court jury after she was hit by a subway train. -
Union Hid Political Spending, Suit Charges
Opinion -The 2.7 million members of the National Education Association (NEA) apparently get a terrific bargain for their membership dues: Political clout at no expense. -
President Pays Tribute to Milton Friedman
Opinion -When Nobel laureate Milton Friedman was in Washington in May to attend the Cato Institute’s 25th anniversary gala, including the inaugural award of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, he had lunch at the White House with President George W. -
Bush, Paige Laud Choice on Milwaukee Visit
Opinion -When Rod Paige was named U.S. Education Secretary by President George W. Bush a year and a half ago, the appointment was greeted with skepticism and apathy by many choice advocates. -
Penn. Tax Credit Off to Fast Start
Opinion -In just 10 months and with little publicity, more than 1,140 companies have taken advantage of Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC). -
Catholic Schools Excel
Opinion -Despite spending less than half what the public schools spend on educating children in poverty, Catholic schools in three New York boroughs outperform the public schools in both reading and mathematics at every grade level, according to a recent study we -
The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Getting School Board Members On Board Teaching college students in Michigan convinced Lori Yaklin that America’s K-12 school system was in a deep state of disrepair. -
‘See, I’m an American!’
Opinion -In an interview for Ken Burn’s PBS film on Thomas Jefferson, columnist George Will commented on the importance of citizens knowing the opening words of the Declaration of Independence. “[W]e have a civil religion in this country. -
Take the History Test
Opinion -These are sample questions from the 2001 National Assessment of Educational Progress.(click here answers) Fourth Grade 4.1 The poster shown here [Uncle Sam "I Want You for the U.S. -
Paycheck Protection in Colorado
Opinion -In an interview with United Press International earlier this year, Colorado Governor Bill Owens reflected on the executive order he signed in May 2001 ending automatic payroll processing of all government union dues: “We ordered a review of all the -
New Mexico’s Failing Schools Will Get Private Management
Opinion -Although the New Mexico legislature has rejected all of Governor Gary Johnson’s efforts to enable children in failing public schools to use a voucher to transfer to another public or private school, Johnson’s plan for a “report card” school rating system -
Liberal academic shoots down Precautionary Principle
Opinion -The Precautionary Principle—a popular theory holding that speculative, unproven environmental risks are entitled to primacy in any environmental debate so long as any risks exist—has been harshly criticized in a just-released law and -
Island nation may sue U.S. over global warming
Opinion -Tuvalu is threatening to sue the United States and Australia over their refusal to back the Kyoto Protocol, which sets targets aimed at cutting greenhouse emissions blamed for global warming and rising sea levels. -
‘Yes’ on Yucca
Opinion -Manufacturing accounts for roughly one-third of America’s demand for electricity. As a small manufacturer who employs 200 men and women near St. -
California could get its own CAFE
Opinion -The federal government’s proposed ethanol mandate may be bad for California ... but a bill passed by both the California Assembly and Senate, but not yet signed into law by Governor Gray Davis, is worse. -
Farm Bureau: Why we support the ethanol mandate
Opinion -The use of ethanol as an additive to gasoline has proven to be successful in reducing the amount of pollution emitted by gasoline engines. -
The car of the future
Opinion -In “Hybrid Cars: Less Fuel but More Costs” (Business Week, April 15, 2002), Paul Raeburn bursts the bubble of those relying on the future of electricity to power our automobiles ... -
Energy answer is not ‘blowing in the wind’
Opinion -One of the most highly touted forms of renewable power is wind-generated energy. Like solar power, it is inexhaustible (so long as the wind blows), does not pollute, and is “free. -
The prairie dogs that weren’t there
Opinion -There is no evidence that Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) employees who charged Lin Drake of Cedar City, Utah with violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA) ever heard this poem: “Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. -
Hollywood hypocrites
Opinion -When people think of Hollywood and politics, they are likely to envision Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, or any of a host of politically active stars waxing poetic about the environment and volunteering their efforts to raise money for the common cause.
