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Report: Urban Sprawl Fears Largely Unfounded
Opinion -Urban "sprawl" has become the latest target for advocates of big government. Indeed, according to Dr. -
School Choice in the Courts
Opinion -Because of its commitment to defend parental choice programs whenever they come under attack, the Washington, DC-based Institute for Justice has picked up the gauntlet for parents in five educational choice cases across the country. -
School Choice Movement Mourns Passing of Two Champions
Opinion -William Bentley Ball, Legal Scholar Distinguished constitutional scholar William Bentley Ball, a leading advocate for parental choice in education who served as counsel in 25 constitutional litigations before the U.S. -
Senate Bill Would Advance Kyoto Emission Goals
Opinion -While the Clinton Administration has been reluctant to submit the Kyoto global warming protocol to the Senate for ratification, that body will soon take up legislation that effectively implements the treaty’s goals by encouraging business to adopt -
Tax Credit Triumph in Arizona
Opinion -The school choice movement won another major victory when the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a 1997 state law that allows taxpayers to claim a state income tax credit of up to $500 a year for contributions to organizations offering scholarships at K-12 -
Tribal Casino Funds School Choice Scholarships
Opinion -With a judicious mix of educational incentives and penalties, the tribal council of New Mexico's Sandia Pueblo has succeeded in reducing the dropout rate of its high school students to zero, thereby ensuring that all pueblo children graduate from high -
What’s ‘Public Money’?
Opinion -To budget analysts, tax deductions and tax credits are "tax expenditures" because they result in the government "spending" tax revenues that otherwise would have been received. In Kotterman v. -
What’s the Score in Education?
Opinion -"We admire Michael Jordan--not because he got the ball near, over, or in the direction of the basket--but in the basket. If schools lack clear standards, nobody knows the score--not educators, not parents, not kids, not the public." Herbert J. -
WHO Unconcerned by Global Warming
Opinion -In its recent annual report, the World Health Organization (WHO) identifies three trends that threaten the planet. To the surprise of many and consternation of some, global warming is not among them. -
Deja Vu: Sex Scandal from Arkansas
Opinion -More than two years before Arkansas' most famous son, President Bill Clinton, was impeached for lying about his "inappropriate" sexual relationship with a junior employee and for taking various illegal steps to cover up that relationship, a three-part -
How Immigrants Fare in U.S. Public Schools
Opinion -Immigrant parents and their children decisively reject bilingual education and emphatically agree that children should speak English. -
Schools Illegally Coerced to Adopt Bilingual Ed
Opinion -In the absence of critical oversight, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed upon schools an ever-expanding burden of bilingual education requirements with dubious justification, charges a new policy study from the Center for Equal Opportunity -
Can Vouchers Save Edgewood’s Children?
Opinion -In a series of front-page articles just before Thanksgiving last year, Houston Chronicle reporter Thaddeus Herrick wrote about the Edgewood School District in San Antonio, Texas, where CEO America has initiated a ten-year project to determine the -
Poverty Can’t Hold Down Latino Math Scores
Opinion -Math achievement of students from low-income families improves only when family improves, right? -
Judge Supports Teachers’ Right to Sue Local Union
Opinion -A federal judge has added nearly 500 teachers to a federal class-action suit originally filed over five years ago by a group of teachers who argued that union officials illegally demanded payment of dues or agency fees from them. -
Union Contracts Ask Little of Maryland Teachers
Opinion -A new study of the 24 teacher union contracts currently in effect in Maryland reveals that county school boards are extraordinarily lenient with the unions and actually demand very little of public school teachers. -
Education Policy for the New Millennium
Opinion -The members of the newly installed 106th Congress have been handed an historic opportunity to change the course of K-12 education, by changing the focus of federal education programs administered under the $13 billion-a-year Elementary and Secondary -
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Reporting the Unthinkable: Sex Between Teachers and Students
Opinion -". . . John Shockro, a popular teacher and coach in Mattapoisett, assaulted numerous girls over 23 years. He pleaded guilty last year to seven counts of child rape and six other sexual-assault charges involving two students from 1994 through 1996. . . . -
Other Countries Overtake U.S. in Education
Opinion -If it is true, as public educators insist, that today's high school graduates face competition in a world-wide marketplace, then 1998 was the year when--from start to finish--U.S. -
Urban School Systems Can Succeed: ‘Wall-to-Wall, for All Children’
Opinion -The remarkable success of El Paso, Texas, Superintendent Anthony Trujillo's schools and students over a six-year period brings a refreshing message of hope and promise--that urban school systems can be transformed into cost-efficient, high-performing -
02/1999 State Education Roundup
Opinion -Georgia * Idaho * Illinois * Maryland New York * Ohio * Pennsylvania GEORGIA Mom, Put My Teacher in Jail In Savannah, Georgia, teachers are facing their worst nightmare: kids with “attitude” can have them arrested. -
Parents in Control
Opinion -Florida Legislators Support School Choice A bipartisan group of legislators--including the chairwoman of the legislative black caucus--has promised to deliver school choice to Florida's parents next year and to work with Floridians for School Choice -
Remedial Ed–Little Bang for the Buck
Opinion -Despite congressionally funded assessments documenting that the two programs have been failures from the beginning, some 1.
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