Opinion
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Small Unions Must Disclose Political Spending
Opinion -A federal judge in California has ruled that eight local affiliates of the California Teachers Association (CTA) and six Bay Area school districts violated teachers' constitutional rights. -
Farm Bureau: Anti-pesticides Report a ‘Shameless Attempt’ to Frighten the Public
Opinion -Leading scientists agree that Americans enjoy the world's safest, most abundant food supply. -
Campaign Launched to Add Millions of Prairie Dogs to Endangered Species List
Opinion -School children, always eager to befriend warm and fuzzy animals, are now being recruited by environmentalists and a major corporation to come to the defense of the prolific and destructive prairie dog. -
Forest Service Builds Tank Traps in National Forest
Opinion -“Nowhere is the administration’s agenda of ‘locking up the land and keeping people out’ more evident than in the Targhee [National Forest],” Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) told Environment News. -
Experts: No quick fix for failing schools
Opinion -To turn around low-performing schools, policymakers and educators must "create educational safe-havens for the children who are being victimized by dysfunctional schools. -
How the Scholarships Work
Opinion -Last year, when entrepreneur Ted Forstmann and investor John Walton formed the Children's Scholarship Fund, they each offered to put up $50 million for private scholarships of between $600 and $1,600 for children in grades K-8 who qualified for the -
EPA Must Change Before States Accept Responsibility for Environment Policy
Opinion -Despite its public statements professing eagerness to cooperate more with the states, the U.S. -
Legislation Proposed to Rein in Forest Service
Opinion -Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) has introduced the “Forest Roads Community Right-to-Know Act” to ensure local public participation in any decisions of the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management to permanently close a forest road. -
Court: It’s OK to Drain Wetlands
Opinion -In a ruling with far-reaching implications, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's finding that landowners and local government agencies are free to drain wetlands without permits or interference from the Army Corps of -
Urban School Reforms Don’t Improve Education
Opinion -Frederick M. Hess Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform Brookings Institution Press, 228 pp., $39.95 "A frenetic search for quick solutions is precisely the kind of leadership unlikely to produce long-term improvement. -
School choice news from the states
Opinion -State Nixes Secession Bid The California state school board has rejected an attempt by residents in Lomita, a 2,000-student suburban community south of Los Angeles, to secede from the 700,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District. -
Study: States Should Take the Wheel of Environmental Progress
Opinion -Despite claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the contrary, states are not failing as environmental regulators, according to a new report from the Reason Public Policy Institute (RPPI). -
Land Trust Spotlight
Opinion -Arizona By comparison in Massachusetts--where the first land trust was created in the 1880s--only 1 percent of the land is in government hands. -
A Death in the Night
Opinion -“The evening of Thanksgiving, I kissed my son of 26 years, Shayne, goodnight for the last time,” Joanne Marshall recently told a roomful of reporters at a conference of Environmental Protection Agency whistleblowers. -
AFL-CIO Reiterates its Opposition to Kyoto Global Warming Accord
Opinion -Warning that the Kyoto Protocol on global warming represents a threat to the U.S. economy, the AFL-CIO has reaffirmed its opposition to the one-sided treaty. -
Bad Student’s Worst Nightmare: On-line Parents
Opinion -One feature of a new ParentLink Suite™ offered by Sprint to K-12 schools may be a bad student's worst nightmare come true. -
Class.com Offers High School Diploma over the Internet
Opinion -The fully accredited Independent Study High School has gone through a number of changes during the almost 70 years it has been owned and operated by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. -
Emissions Test Damage Reports Mount
Opinion -Illinois EPA (IEPA) reports it received 276 claims of automobile damage caused by the new IM-240 dynamometer emissions test in February and March. -
Energy Conference Casts Doubt on Alternative Fuels
Opinion -The Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the Department of Energy held its annual energy outlook conference on March 22. -
Getting Into the Education Market
Opinion -Just as companies like Barnes & Noble have responded to the changing nature of the retail marketplace by creating online superstores on the Internet, so also are some education providers making plans so that they are not passed by in the coming market -
Glacial Melting No More than a Drop in the Bucket
Opinion -While global warming alarmists warn that melting glaciers will cause sea levels to rise dramatically--a Smithsonian Institution exhibit depicts a submerged Washington Monument--Earth’s glaciers are in fact behaving quite differently. -
Mayors Seek to Improve Schools in Other Cities
Opinion -Spurred largely by Mayor Richard M. Daley’s apparent success in improving the Chicago public schools, mayors in several other cities seem eager to be given authority to take control of failing schools in their own urban areas. -
Parental Freedom in the States and Nation
Opinion -Arizona On March 15 the Arizona House passed HB 2279, a bill that would provide “Parental Choice Grants” to low-income parents, on a vote of 31 to 27__the minimum number of votes needed for passage. -
ParentLink™ in Operation
Opinion -Sprint's ParentLink™ Suite is in daily use in Unified School District 469 in Lansing, Kansas. Lansing children or their parents access ParentLink™ voice mail boxes an average of 1.