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Summer Reading
Opinion -School Reform News' contributing editors and friends helped compile this list of recommended books for summer reading. TOP PICK If you read only one book this summer, make it this one: Andrew J. -
Study: President’s Education Proposal Redefines
Opinion -"I believe we must change the way we invest money to support what works and to stop supporting what does not work. . . . -
The Bible as Curriculum
Opinion -May students study the Bible in a public school class? Yes. -
Teachers and Religion in the Public School Classroom
Opinion -When school board members in Moravia, New York, discovered that a popular teacher didn't recite the Pledge of Allegiance in his classroom because he objected to the phrase "under God," they wouldn't allow him to speak at a graduation ceremony, -
GOP Education Proposal Would End Federal Micromanagement
Opinion -The GOP has taken an idea that President Clinton strongly supports--charter schools--and is using its basic premise to counter the President's call for expanding the role of the federal government in education. -
Close Union Vote Costly for Minnesota Teacher Union
Opinion -Although members of the National Education Association last year decisively defeated a proposal to merge with the American Federation of Teachers, another merger-related proposal received a much better reception at this year's Annual Representative -
Vouchers Open Doors for Private Schools
Opinion -Florida's voucher program will begin to open the doors of Nobel private schools to children who need a better education, said Jack Clegg, chairman and CEO of Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. -
Don’t Hold Your Breath
Opinion -It's summertime and the usual air pollution warnings are with us again. -
08/1999 Legislative Update
Opinion -American Land Sovereignty Protection Act This bill, requiring Congressional approval for United Nations land designations on U.S. soil, passed the House by voice vote May 17. It was introduced as S. -
Brilliant Teachers + Good Administration + Concern Parents = The Best School You Can Get
Opinion -The State of North Carolina almost shut down Durham's predominantly African-American Healthy Start Academy last year because its demographics violated the state's requirements for racial balance. -
Reining in the Regulatory State: an Exclusive Interview with Angela Antonelli
Opinion -A contributing editor to Environment News, Angela Antonelli served as an analyst and Assistant Branch Chief in the White House Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) from 1989 to 1993. -
Tips for Reducing Auto Emissions
Opinion -Bob Brooks, a highly respected automotive consultant and writer for Ward’s Engine and Vehicle Technology Update, proposed, in that newsletter’s May 15 issue, six common-sense measures for reducing vehicle pollution. -
Congressional Earmarks Undermine State and Local Decision-making
Opinion -Congressional efforts to micromanage state and local decision-making may have set a new record last year, when members of Congress included thousands of “earmarked” spending mandates that often preempted local priorities in determining how such federal -
Senate Votes to Restrict Access to ‘Worst-case Scenario’ Information
Opinion -In a setback for EPA and anti-industry environmental groups, the Senate has postponed for one year the electronic release of sensitive data relating to worst-case accident scenarios at thousands of chemical facilities throughout the nation. -
Giuliani Seeks Vouchers for Summer School
Opinion -New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani won't let vouchers die. -
Anti-vinyl Coalition Seeks Ban on Intravenous Medical Supplies
Opinion -If it’s bad for laboratory rats, then it must be bad for humans, the old song goes. -
Global Warming: a Boon for the U.S. Economy?
Opinion -The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy Robert Mendelsohn and James E. Neumann, editors Cambridge University Press, June 1999 320 pages, $59. -
ESA Sends Two Retirees to the Poorhouse
Opinion -For seven years, Viola Allen, an ailing 72-year-old widow, has been desperately trying to sell her eight-acre property in Lynnwood, Washington so she can finally have enough money to move out of her rapidly deteriorating home. -
Voucher Law Signed in Florida
Opinion -Calling it "a giant stride forward in ensuring that schools serve children and their families," Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed the nation's first statewide voucher program on June 21. -
How Florida’s Vouchers Work
Opinion -Florida's vouchers are called "opportunity scholarships" and are part of an education improvement package that rewards successful schools and gives students the option of leaving a failing school. -
‘Livable Communities’ May Be Anything but
Opinion -Vice President Al Gore says he wants to curb urban “sprawl” and improve the livability of American cities. -
Wildfire: Forest Service Mismanagement Puts Millions of Acres of Forests at Risk
Opinion -Forest Service reductions in timber sales and its practice of extinguishing small brush fires have put millions of acres of western forests and numerous towns at risk of being devoured by catastrophic wildfires. -
Bible Story Ban Prompts Lawsuit
Opinion -More than three years have elapsed since that morning on February 9, 1996, when first-grader Zachary Hood of Medford, New Jersey, stood up to read his favorite story to the rest of the class--his reward for reaching a certain degree of reading -
Cleveland Voucher Program Reauthorized
Opinion -Beating back an attempt to sabotage the program by limiting it to grades K-5, Ohio lawmakers on June 24 approved an education budget that continues to fully fund the Cleveland Scholarship Program for the next two years.
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