Opinion
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Just the Facts: Summer Reading
Opinion -School Reform News' contributing editors and friends helped compile this list of recommended books for summer reading Top Picks John Merrifield, The School Choice Wars Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press Inc. -
NAS summary distorted
Opinion -The very first sentence of the Summary to the National Academy of Sciences' recently issued report on global climate change (NAS/S) makes clear that the politics of climate change continues to take precedence over the science of climate change, even -
Patients’ Rights Debate Lacks Honesty
Opinion -There is something very important missing from the Patients’ Bill of Rights (PBOR) ... and from the politicians’ discussion of what the pending legislation entails. In a word, honesty is missing. -
08/2001: The Galen Report
Opinion -In “Importing HCFA-Style Regulation Into the Private Sector Through The Patients' Bill of Rights,” Robert E. Moffit of The Heritage Foundation looks beyond the litigation aspect of the patients' bill of rights and examines the regulatory implications. -
Pharmacy Groups File Suit Against U.S.
Opinion -The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) have filed a complaint against Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Tom Scully, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare -
Patients’ Bill of Rights An Unhealthy Remedy
Opinion -In an effort to help Americans unhappy with the service they’re getting from "managed care" health plans, federal lawmakers are laboring mightily to enact a "Patients’ Bill of Rights" that would let patients sue those plans when they feel they’ve been -
Government regulators quizzed about Klamath
Opinion -Forty-six days following a federal decision to strip a community of its livelihood, economy, and pride by enacting a cutoff of irrigation water to protect fish species, members of the California State Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife -
Chicago Schools CEO Vallas Resigns
Opinion -In surprise moves just a few weeks after the release of disappointing student test scores, Gery Chico and Paul Vallas, the two-man reform team largely responsible for nationally touted improvements in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) over the past six -
WI Democrats Vote to Slash Voucher Funding
Opinion -"So this is what the Democrats do when they're in charge: They try to kill a program visibly benefiting thousands of needy schoolchildren in Milwaukee. -
Milford Still Aims to Exclude Good News Club
Opinion -Although the U.S. -
Congress Approves K-12 Education Savings Accounts
Opinion -Senator Paul Coverdell, the education-conscious gentleman from Georgia, had to be smiling down on the proceedings when President George W. Bush signed the tax-relief bill into law on June 7. -
The Case for Managed Care: Part 2 of 3
Opinion -In Part One of this three-part series, we covered the macro history of managed care. -
NFIB, Fortis Team Up for Affordable Insurance
Opinion -The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and Fortis Health have teamed up to make affordable health insurance plans available to 600,000 NFIB member businesses throughout the U.S. -
Health Care Reform on the Web
Opinion -Ever wonder how the managing editor stays abreast of breaking developments in health care reform? In two words: the Internet. -
Tennessee Tax Protest: A Report from the Front Lines
Opinion -Police cars blockaded entrances to the Tennessee state capitol building, and troopers patrolled legislative hallways this week as the state legislature found itself under siege by thousands of angry taxpayers upset at a plan to implement a state income -
Red counties, blue counties, and environmentalists
Opinion -Tune in to any national news segment on the environment and you will get the same predictable format: video of beautiful natural splendor, followed by a doom-and-gloom portrayal of some Big Industry's exploitation of the environment, followed by a local -
Americans Like Public Schools . . .and Vouchers
Opinion -Are the American people sending a definitive message on school choice by consistently rejecting voucher initiatives at the ballot box? -
Fly-in for Freedom rallies free-market environmentalists
Opinion -Environmental protection does not require violating private property rights or heavy-handed federal government intrusion, concluded participants in the Alliance for America's Eleventh Annual Fly-In for Freedom. -
It’s time to protect our property . . . again
Opinion -I am not a lawyer. I have spent 35 years watching the federal government buy, mismanage, and seal up more and more private property. Many citizens are deeply concerned about these matters. -
Reynolds Nominated to Head OCR
Opinion -In a step with important implications for bilingual education, President George W. Bush in June announced the nomination of Gerald Reynolds as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. -
Education Vouchers in Developing Countries
Opinion -School vouchers and targeted scholarship programs in the U.S. generally are used to help low-income families transfer their children from inadequate public schools to more acceptable private schools. -
Advances in diesel technology point to cleaner air
Opinion -On May 8, International Truck and Engine Corporation (ITEC) released "Performance, Environment, Safety, Health: The Facts About New Diesel Technology. -
Bilingual Education Update
Opinion -By a wide margin (384-45), the U.S. House of Representatives approved sweeping changes to federal bilingual education programs as part of H.R. 1, the legislative vehicle for President George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" education plan. -
Bucket Brigade for ESA reform
Opinion -April 6, 2001, is a day that will live in infamy in the lives of thousands of people in the Klamath Basin region of Northern California and Southern Oregon.