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Business Approach Nets Turnaround for Texas Education
Opinion -By applying a business approach to accountability in their public schools, lawmakers in the Lone Star State have over the past decade turned Texas into one of the highest-performing states in the nation in terms of educational achievement. -
Directory Profiles Nation’s Charter Schools
Opinion -With the opening of 784 charter schools since 1990, the public school choice movement has clearly demonstrated that new schools will spring up when parents are given the opportunity to direct education tax dollars to the schools of their choice. -
Veto Puts Clinton At Odds With DC Residents
Opinion -A few days after President Clinton vetoed a pilot program to provide tuition vouchers to 2,000 poor children in Washington, DC, a new Washington Post poll showed that most District residents favor the idea of using vouchers to help low-income families -
Charter School Survey
Opinion -The Center for Education Reform's 1997-1998 National Charter School Directory includes the results of a survey of charter schools in operation in the 1996-1997 school year. -
More Turmoil in DC
Opinion -The former U.S. Army general who took control of the public schools in the nation's capital in January 1997 has resigned. Running the city's schools had been his toughest job, said 71-year-old Julius W. Becton Jr. -
06/1998 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -School choice news from the states. -
Babbitt’s Credibility in Question After Exaggerated ESA Claims
Opinion -With his widely reported May 5 announcement that he was removing 33 species of flora and fauna from the endangered species list, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt no doubt hoped to defuse the raging controversy surrounding how the federal government -
Can Property Rights Protect the Environment?
Opinion -What do depleted stocks of cod and haddock in the waters off Canada’s maritime provinces, and the environmental degradation clearly visible on U.S. federal lands, have in common? -
Environmental Education Today: How to Teach Facts, Not Fear: an exclusive interview Jane Shaw
Opinion -Jane Shaw is a Senior Associate of PERC (the Political Economy Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana, a research and educational organization that explores market solutions to environmental problems. -
Global Warming: Enjoy it While You Can
Opinion -Policymakers have been arguing for nearly a decade over what to do about global warming. -
Ladies’ Home Journal Exposes Outcome-Based-Education
Opinion -"I put the blame squarely on Outcome-Based-Education and Cottage Grove High School. They robbed my daughter of her education. -
Lawmakers Seek to Block Kyoto Treaty ‘Implementation Without Ratification’
Opinion -Concerned that the Clinton administration is moving ahead with plans to carry out the terms of the as-yet unratified Kyoto Protocol, opponents of the controversial global warming treaty are rallying behind new legislation designed to thwart “back door” -
Opposition Mounts to EPA’s Environmental Justice Initiative
Opinion -Less than a year after it withstood a barrage of criticism and imposed controversial new air quality standards, the Environmental Protection Agency is embroiled in a new, potentially even more explosive, battle. -
Secrecy May Prove the Undoing of American Heritage Rivers Initiative
Opinion -Congressman Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho), concerned that the American Heritage Rivers Initiative (AHRI) will lead state and local governments to surrender their constitutional authority to 13 federal agencies, has been waging a personal battle against the -
Study: New Environmental Initiatives Threaten to Undermine Electricity Deregulation
Opinion -Hopes that deregulation of the electric utility industry will lead to lower costs for consumers may never be realized, according to a study released May 27 by the Washington-based Edison Electric Institute (EEI). -
What Can Parents Do?
Opinion -Ladies' Home Journal offers this advice to parents who may wonder if their children are learning the right things at school: Ask your child about school. If something seems strange, talk to the teacher--and the principal, if necessary. -
More Services Outsourced by LA School District
Opinion -The Los Angeles Unified School District recently approved contracts totaling almost $5 million to two private companies to provide supplemental education services for students in the nation's second largest school district, which has 682,000 students, -
Californians to Vote on Banning Bilingual Ed
Opinion -On June 2, voters in California will cast their ballots on Proposition 227, an initiative that would eliminate bilingual education programs in the state. -
Court Battles Over Choice in Milwaukee and Vermont
Opinion -A legal challenge to the Milwaukee school voucher program prompted a 16-bus caravan of choice supporters to travel from Milwaukee to Madison on March 4 to gather for a large school choice rally on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol. -
Class Size Reduction: Been There, Done That
Opinion -A very consistent picture emerges from a new and extensive investigation into research on the effects of class size on student performance: Little systematic gain in performance is achieved by reducing class size. -
Reforming Education With School Choice
Opinion -"Education reform should begin with opening up opportunities for all families to send their children to the very best schools possible," declared James Mansour, CEO America’s national chairman, at a March 10 Congressional briefing on school choice in -
Paycheck Protection against Union Deductions
Opinion -Polls show that voters strongly support California's Proposition 226, the "Paycheck Protection" initiative appearing on the ballot on June 2. -
Crisis in Education Magazine Debuts
Opinion -In February, the Morley Institute published the premier issue of Crisis in Education, a new 60-page magazine edited by Robert Holland. -
LA Mayor Welcomes Private Voucher Program
Opinion -Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan welcomed as a "worthy experiment" a $20 million private scholarship plan that would provide at least 5,000 of the city's 681,000 students with $1,000 vouchers annually for four years to attend the private or religious
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