Opinion
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Gore: Private Schools Are Un-American
Opinion -Appearing with children in a recent campaign ad for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Vice President Al Gore said private schools "are fine, but not with money designated for public schools where 90 percent of our American children go. -
Greenpeace Versus Common Sense
Opinion -There they go again. Just three weeks before the 30th anniversary of Earth Day, a former Greenpeace staffer has released a book intended to frighten us into banning one of the most useful chemicals known to man, chlorine. -
How Long Must We Wait?
Opinion -While voucher opponents applauded Judge L. Ralph Smith Jr. -
Incentives Needed for Schools to Improve
Opinion -If competition from charter schools is to force greater reform in public schools, there must be a clearer link between enrollment and dollars, according to a recent study of charter schools by SUNY/Stony Brook researchers. -
New Audit of Milwaukee Program
Opinion -In February, Wisconsin's Legislative Audit Bureau released a new 174-page audit of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, detailing the history of the program, its annual cost, annual enrollment, current enrollment by grade, and ethnic composition of -
Shucking Off Paternalism
Opinion -If school choice has become the new civil rights movement, why is it that many traditional civil rights groups, such as the NAACP, join in lawsuits opposing the empowerment of low-income minority parents with school vouchers? -
Students Already Fleeing Failing Schools
Opinion -Under a private school choice program, the loss of just 53 Florida public school students to private schools served as a wake-up call for improvement to public schools throughout the state. -
The Drain Refrain: A Challenge for Private Education
Opinion -These are exciting times for private education. It's difficult to turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper without seeing a story about the success of private schools. -
Vouchers Leverage Change for Remaining Students
Opinion -Although just 53 Florida students used vouchers to transfer from public to private schools under the A+ Plan last year, at a cost of less than $200,000, the shift of those few students appears to have jolted many of the state's public schools into -
Auto emissions testing: Designed for failure
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Nineteen reasons to stop worrying about global warming
Opinion -The Washington Post ran a story recently with this howler of a headline: “Global Warming is ‘Real,’ Report Finds. -
Will the 106th Congress Promote School Choice?
Opinion -Congress has engaged in a flurry of school-choice activity in recent years--and it's likely to continue. -
U.S. Senate, Massachusetts Consider Bilingual Ed Reform
Opinion -As it deliberates reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the U.S. Senate is considering unprecedented reform of federal bilingual education programs. -
New Scholarship Programs Launched in St. Louis and Denver
Opinion -Inspired by last year’s overwhelming response from parents to the Children's Scholarship Fund, retired St. Louis businessman Eugene Williams and his wife Evie have donated $2.6 million toward the creation of a new $3.6 million fund, the St. -
Computers in K-12 Classrooms — Helpful, Hindrances, or Ornaments? interview with Andrew J. Coulson
Opinion -Public schooling: “a legally protected government monopoly bogged down by excessive regulation, protected from serious competition by its guaranteed tax funding base, bereft of the profit motive that spurs innovation and efficiency, and a pawn to -
Edison Schools Expanding Rapidly
Opinion -In February, Edison Schools, Inc. -
Who Determines Democrats’ Policy on Vouchers?
Opinion -Democrats oppose school choice not because the teacher unions oppose it, but because the American people overwhelmingly oppose it, claimed Vice President Al Gore during a recent debate with Bill Bradley at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. -
EPA writes new regs for Bt corn
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced new rules, worked out with the National Corn Growers Association, that would require farmers to plant a 20 percent border of non-Bt corn around the Bt corn acreage they grow. -
A history lesson from Tasmania
Opinion -News stories about global climate change have recently included temperature histories that extend back for about a thousand years, thanks to the efforts of such researchers as the University of Virginia’s Michael Mann and colleagues. -
Roadless areas near you
Opinion -Nearly every state in the nation has areas that would be made off-limits for road construction or maintenance if the Clinton-Gore administration's "roadless areas" proposal is put into affect. Connecticut--whose Rep. -
Spending the Surplus
Opinion -The Clinton-Gore administration has proposed $42.5 billion in spending on environmental projects as part of the FY2001 budget—an increase of 11 percent over last year, and a 35 percent increase from when they took office in 1993. -
Ignored elves terrorize U.S.
Opinion -The burning of biotechnology offices in Michigan State University’s historic Agriculture Hall on New Year’s Eve; fire set to a home in a new development near Bloomington, Indiana on January 23; and “havoc” wreaked at a University -
Judicial update
Opinion -Citizens’ right to sue upheld On January 12, 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that citizens do have the right to sue alleged polluters under the Clean Water Act. In a 7-2 decision in Friends of the Earth vs. -
I’m sick and tired of polls and I’m not going to take it any more!
Opinion -It used to be said that figures lie and liars figure. No more. Today they become pollsters . . . and the manipulators for whom they work.