Opinion
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Court Lifts Cloud over Cleveland
Opinion -Responding to an October 28 request from Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery to take emergency action, the U.S. Supreme Court on November 5 voted 5-4 to stay an injunction against the Cleveland school choice program. -
High School Grads Lack College, Work Skills
Opinion -While public school educators frequently raise concerns that many entry-level students don't come to school "ready-to-learn," many employers and college professors raise similar concerns about the work product of these same educators: high school -
Union Chief: Give Money to Us, Not to Parents
Opinion -"I represent teachers. That's who I represent. -
Capitol Hill Conference Hails School Choice
Opinion -It has been 20 years since Tom Tancredo, then a Colorado state legislator, introduced his first voucher legislation in Denver. His proposal never even make it out of the education committee that he himself chaired . . . but Tancredo didn't give up. -
The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change
Opinion -In 1991, a year before the global climate treaty was signed in Rio de Janeiro, a group of scientists and others met in Mexico and issued The Morelia Declaration, which became the philosophical underpinning of the “global warming” movement. -
Biotech reporting mimics Hollywood rumor mill
Opinion -A few years ago, the mainstream press started covering what the gossip sheets were saying about celebrities. -
Gore’s ‘global warming mentor,’ in his own words
Opinion -If Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius is the grandfather of greenhouse warming (ca. 1897), then oceanographer Roger Revelle is certainly its father. -
NET launches misinformation campaign
Opinion -A coalition of environmental organizations has announced an $11 million campaign this fall "to educate the public about global warming. -
Private Water Conservation Can Work
Opinion -For Oregon and other western states, water is a scarce commodity. -
Farmer challenges EPA authority under Clean Water Act
Opinion -California farmers Guido and Betty Pronsolino have filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the agency overstepped its authority when it denied the family a chance to harvest timber from its farm. -
Western land grab by President
Opinion -“Over two-hundred years ago we decided that the King would not rule. We decided that the King’s lands would be everyone’s lands. -
Court strikes down EPA ‘Over-filing’
Opinion -A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot fine companies for violations of hazardous waste regulations if state agencies have already taken action. -
FWS ‘slush fund’ exposed in Congressional hearings
Opinion -“What the Fish and Wildlife Service doesn’t seem to understand is that Dingell-Johnson and Pittman-Robertson funds are for fish and wildlife conservation programs in the 50 states--not a slush fund for agency officials,” Don Young -
EPA stymied in effort to get farm data
Opinion -The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the data-gathering arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has refused to comply with a data-sharing agreement reached earlier this year with the Environmental Protection Agency. -
Parent ‘Vote’ Is Key to Better Schools
Opinion -Today, we think it strange that women once didn't have the vote. In the future, says entrepreneur John Walton, co-founder of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, it will seem equally strange that many Americans today don't have an educational vote. -
Call to Halt School-to-Work Spending
Opinion -WASHINGTON--Since the 104th Congress passed the School-to-Work Opportunities Act in 1994, the federal government has dispensed a total of $2 billion in implementation grants to the 50 states. -
Views on Vouchers
Opinion -It’s not a matter of public vs. private schools, it’s a matter of better schools. -
EPA Ignored Its Own Scientists on MTBE
Opinion -When an EPA-appointed blue-ribbon panel announced last summer it was recommending that use of the gasoline additive MTBE be "reduced substantially," the curtain began falling on one of the most bizarre--and avoidable--missteps in recent U.S. -
High Court to rule on ‘citizen suits’
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this session on whether “citizen suits” filed under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and other environmental laws are constitutional. -
FWS whistleblowers expose intimidation, obstruction of justice
Opinion -James M. Beers, a 31-year employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), testified before the House Resource Committee that he had not agreed with his supervisors at FWS about their funding for animal rights grant applicants. -
Lessons from Wisconsin
Opinion -The intellectual debate over vouchers in Milwaukee may be over, but the battle to regulate educational choice still is being fought, according to American Education Reform Council president Susan Mitchell in a recent report from the Wisconsin Policy -
Two School Chiefs Talk about Vouchers
Opinion -While dismissing vouchers as "a diversion" and "a proxy for real investment," New York Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew admitted to a Milwaukee audience that "you're causing me pure hell in New York. -
School Choice for the Next Millennium
Opinion -Treat everyone the same, with a fair share for each person: The idea is so basic that children learn it in kindergarten, long before they’re able to express it as a fundamental concept of the rule of law. -
01/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arkansas * Alabama * Connecticut * Illinois * Indiana * Kansas Massachusetts * Michigan * New Hampshire * Pennsylvania * Texas ARKANSAS A Town Divided--by Teacher Salaries When the Texas Legislature approved a $3,000-per-year pay increase