Opinion
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Lessons for Choice Legislation
Opinion -Claudia Rebanks Hepburn's report for The Fraser Institute, The Case for School Choice: Models from the United States, New Zealand, Denmark, and Sweden, contains a wealth of information about the benefits that school choice has brought to different -
Teachers Not Academic Stars
Opinion -National Education Association president Bob Chase complained that John Stossel's 20/20 program, "Public Schools in Bad Shape," was "a shocking attack on America's public school teachers, portraying them as poorly educated, incompetent, and dim. -
The Cleveland Voucher Program
Opinion -History: The Ohio Legislature enacted the Cleveland Voucher Program as a pilot scholarship program in 1995, in the wake of a U.S. District Court-ordered takeover of the administration of the Cleveland City School District by the state. -
Study Shows Choice Benefits [Canadian] Public Schools
Opinion -Just two months before the National Commission on Governing America's Schools called for more school choice in the U.S. -
The Face of Education Reform
Opinion -In a June 14, 1998 cover story, the New York Times magazine declared Jersey City ground zero in the national battle for education reform. On November 22, 1999, Jersey City unveiled the face of education reform in America. -
Environmental journalism: A little knowledge is dangerous
Opinion -“With an impressive-sounding name for your environmental organization, you can scare people out of a lot of money,” wrote columnist Paul Harvey in 1996. -
International attempt to control U.S. mining fails
Opinion -An attempt to place U.S. mining under international control, made by the World Heritage Committee (WHC) in Marrakesh, Morocco in December, was soundly rejected by the U.S. State Department. The department’s strong stand for U.S. -
The Green’s Ear-ie Ad
Opinion -“Who plays God in the 21st century?” is the rhetorical title of a recent full-page advertisement in The New York Times attacking genetic engineering. -
Planting the seeds of misinformation
Opinion -The Food and Drug Administration has been holding hearings across the country on the safety of genetically engineered plants as food for humans. -
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Opinion -Ben & Jerry's ice cream has a reputation for being the most politically correct item in your freezer. For years the company has decried the dangers of even trace levels of "toxins" in food. -
Kyoto’s chilling effects: Can the United Nations dictate scientific outcome?
Opinion -The former head of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which bills itself as the “consensus of scientists,” has finally made it official: If your research indicates global warming isn’t such a big -
Wheat keeps winning!
Opinion -Throughout the world, wheat greatly benefits from each new molecule of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere. -
School Choice in the Courts
Opinion -School choice issues increasingly are being fought in the courts, as parents seek better educational options for their children and as establishment forces seek to maintain the status quo. -
Advancing School Choice
Opinion -CHOOSING EQUALITY School Choice, and the Constitution, and Civil Society Joseph P. Viteritti, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C. (1999) Choosing Equality begins with a tribute to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. -
Incentives for Teachers Proliferate
Opinion -In Massachusetts, Boston University Chancellor John Silber, former chairman of the state Board of Education, recently proposed that the first $30,000 of the income of "highly qualified teachers" should be exempt from federal income tax. -
Choice Leaders Mourned
Opinion -Dr. Daniel D. McGarry, Scholar Scholar and parental choice advocate Dr. Daniel D. McGarry died on October 24, 1999 at his family's home in Laguna Beach, California. -
02/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arizona * Colorado * Connecticut * Illinois * Michigan * Montana New York * Ohio * South Carolina * Wisconsin ARIZONA Year-End Push for School Donations Public and private schools in Arizona launched campaigns to promote a state tax credit -
Bill introduced to control cormorants
Opinion -Congressmen John McHugh (R-New York) and Collin Peterson (DFL-Minnesota) introduced a bill on October 20 authorizing states to establish hunting seasons for double-crested cormorants. H.R. 3118 has been referred to the House Resources Committee. -
Democrats Shift Stand on School Choice
Opinion -A key Democrat Party group is calling for radical reforms to remedy the persistent failure of the existing public school monopoly to improve student achievement. -
Done in by DNR and a dune
Opinion -Since 1989, Jim Wickstra has been fighting the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to get compensation for their refusal to allow him to build a house on property he owns in Michigan's Muskegon County. -
Environmentalists and the new millennium
Opinion -Pundits, publications, and people on the street have all been, in one way or another, reviewing the last millennium. What concerns me is where environmentalists want the world to go in the new millennium: back to the future. -
Environmentalists refuse to see that the Earth is greening
Opinion -At Greening Earth Society (GES), we follow Yogi Berra’s dicta “You can observe a lot just by watching.” What we see makes us optimistic about our collective future. -
Implications of Judge Oliver’s Ruling
Opinion -Judge Solomon Oliver Jr.’s December 20, 1999, ruling on the Cleveland Scholarship Program apparently would give public schools the power to void future voucher programs by choosing not to participate in them. -
Judge Voids Cleveland Vouchers for Lack of Choice
Opinion -There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Joseph Heller's WWII: You could get out of flying more combat missions if you were crazy, but if you wanted to get out then you couldn't be crazy and so you had to keep flying missions.
