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Mayor Goldsmith Hails Tuition Scholarships
Opinion -Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith applauded the plans of the Educational CHOICE Charitable Trust to target up to $250,000 in new tuition scholarships to students residing in the inner-city Citizen's King Park neighborhood. -
Even Judges Get Confused
Opinion -In penning the Arizona Supreme Court's majority decision in Kotterman v. Killian earlier this year, upholding the constitutionality of tax credits for education scholarship donations, Chief Justice Thomas A. -
Why the U.S. Fails at Teaching Math
Opinion -The work of Harold Stevenson and coworkers and the Third International Math and Science Study results both show that Asian children learn mathematics better than U.S. children do. What accounts for this? -
Poll: Parents Are Looking for Alternatives
Opinion -An ongoing national public opinion poll reveals that 30 percent of parents with children in public schools--up from 24 percent only two years ago--now believe that the way to improve public education in America is not by reforming the existing public -
Vouchers Could Reduce Regulation
Opinion -While increased government regulation tends to follow government aid that funds the supply of services, increased strings do not follow government aid that funds the demand for services. -
Regulatory Power Is the Dangerous Kind
Opinion -For two decades, America's courtrooms and regulatory agencies have been overwhelmed by various health scares: breast implants, pesticides, cell phones, and fat substitutes, to mention only a few. -
Center for Chesapeake Communities: EPA Establishes Tax-exempt Corporation to Do its Bidding
Opinion -“The abuse of taxpayer dollars by groups who claim to be cleaning up the environment, as detailed in the audit [by the Environmental Protection Agency’s own Office of Inspector General (OIG)] is simply unacceptable,” observed Senator Kit Bond -
Charter Law Working Well in Massachusetts
Opinion -Far from "creaming" the best students from other public schools, charter schools in Massachusetts serve a population of students whose entry-level academic performance is at or below district and national averages, according to the annual report on the -
School Board Policy on Taxpayer Subsidies
Opinion -To safeguard taxpayer interests, school boards should consider adopting federal standards governing taxpayer subsidies to teacher unions, suggests Education Policy Institute Chairman Myron Lieberman. -
Popular Reading Program Raises Questions
Opinion -One of most touted remedial reading program nationwide, Reading Recovery® (RR), continues to expand, despite controversy over its effectiveness and reports that schools in some districts--including Columbus, Ohio, the first U.S. -
Chenoweth Blasts Slush Fund
Opinion -U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) has called for a criminal investigation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for mishandling tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used for conservation projects. -
It’s a Wonderful Life, So Far
Opinion -The quality of life in the U.S. has been improved dramatically during this century. Just since 1945, the average life expectancy has gone from approximately 57 years to nearly 79. -
Economic Development Vs. Environmental Justice: Who Decides?
Opinion -In a country where common sense and practicality once were commonplace, community leaders regularly encouraged companies to build facilities within their borders, creating jobs for residents and economic development in the community. -
10/1999 Legislative Update
Opinion -American Heritage Rivers Initiative In early July, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals turned down a lawsuit filed by Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) and four other House members against President Clinton’s AHRI, ruling the members do not have -
Kyoto Protocol Puts National Security at Risk
Opinion -“The core problem for Congress in terms of national security implications of the climate change accord appears to be the lack of clarity or candor on the Administration’s part over exactly what it and the Pentagon signed onto in Kyoto,” Jeffrey Salmon -
Kyoto Wars
Opinion -The Clinton-Gore administration appears to have launched a full-scale effort to entice its corporate allies to lobby on behalf of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. -
The First Post-environmentalism Book?
Opinion -Hoodwinking the Nation Julian Simon New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers 1999 Why do reporters so often give front-page coverage to the latest sensational claims by the doom-and-gloom lobby? -
Curbing the Imperial Presidency
Opinion -Amid persistent rumors that the Clinton-Gore administration plans to declare millions of acres of land in the “four corners” area of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico off-limits to most human activity by naming the area a National Monument, -
Certainly Uncertain about Climate Change
Opinion -Even as summer temperatures heated up as they normally do, opinion polls showed that Americans were tuning out global warming by large margins. Science suggests they have good reason to do so. I am not a scientist . . . -
More Junk Science from EPA
Opinion -Some five months ago, on May 13, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to impose more stringent emission standards on light-duty vehicles than are called for under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. -
CAFE Debate Looms in Congress
Opinion -The FY 2000 Transportation Department Appropriations bill ranks high on the Senate’s early fall agenda. -
EPA Funds What? Junk Education
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency’s education grants are relatively small, by federal government standards, often just a few thousand dollars each. -
Estimating the Education Market
Opinion -The latest Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll offers insights into what the education marketplace might look like if vouchers became a reality across the United States. -
All Charter’s Grads Are College-Bound
Opinion -All 22 students in the first graduating class of Boston's City on a Hill Charter School senior class are headed for college this fall. Many students at the school come from immigrant families and from the city's poorest neighborhoods.
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