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  • Child-Centered School Funding: Key to Education Reform

    Published September 1, 1998
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    Knotty issues of school finance and school construction, raised by state courts in Arizona and Ohio and plaguing state legislatures nationwide, would be addressed by a “child-centered” approach to education funding that differs dramatically from the
  • CO2 Regulation Would Affect One Million Smaller Businesses

    Published September 1, 1998
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    EPA’s threat to classify carbon dioxide (CO2) as a regulated “pollutant” would generate an enormous bureaucracy and impose legal and economic burdens on at least one million businesses, “the entire heart of the American economy,” according to a study
  • Don’t Like the Weather? Don’t Blame it on Global Warming

    Published September 1, 1998
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    In recent years, advocates of the global warming theory have convinced many Americans that virtually any weather-related calamity is evidence that human-induced global warming is underway.
  • Federal Court Rejects EPA Secondhand Smoke Study

    Published September 1, 1998
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    In one of the most embarrassing setbacks for EPA in recent memory, a federal judge has thrown out the agency’s landmark 1993 risk assessment linking secondhand smoke to cancer.
  • Study: EPA Botched Analysis of Great Lakes Initiative

    Published September 1, 1998
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    Heralded by environmental groups as an example of cost-effective regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Initiative (GLI) will cost U.S. businesses and taxpayers an astounding $1 million for every $5.00 in benefits it produces.
  • The Ups and Downs of Paycheck Protection

    Published September 1, 1998
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    In 1992, Washington became the first state in the nation to pass a campaign reform initiative, Initiative 134, that required businesses and labor unions to obtain employees' written consent before money was deducted from their paychecks for political
  • We Cannot Afford to Wait Any Longer

    Published September 1, 1998
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    While the clout of most politicians declines after leaving office, just the opposite is happening to former Democratic Congressman Floyd H. Flake.
  • Where There’s Fuel, There’s Bound to be Wildfire

    Published September 1, 1998
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    When Vice President Al Gore claimed there was a 1 in 1,000 chance that the wildfires that ravaged Florida during June and July would have occurred without global warming, he actually overstated the odds.
  • White House Releases Economic Analysis on Global Warming

    Published September 1, 1998
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    The White House has forwarded to Congress a detailed report outlining an Administration analysis that concludes the United States can meet the emissions reductions mandated by the Kyoto climate change treaty at "modest" cost to the economy.
  • No. 86 Should EPA Cost-Benefit Analyses Be Conducted by Independent Experts? The GLI as a Case Study

    Published August 1, 1998
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    Quick Links Policy Study (pdf) In 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its Great Lakes Initiative, increasing the stringency of pollution controls across the Great Lakes basin.
  • Earth Day 1998: Coalition Demands that EPA Punish Real Polluters, Not Paperwork Errors

    Published June 1, 1998
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    At a Washington, DC Earth Day briefing on April 22, a coalition of groups led by the National Center for Policy and CREA (???) called on the federal government to ease the environmental regulatory burden on American citizens and businesses.
  • Charter School Notes

    Published June 1, 1998
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    If a charter school's goal is something vague, like developing good citizens, it will be much more difficult for the school's sponsors to authorize whether a charter should be renewed or not, warns a March 16 report from the University of Minnesota's
  • Solid Advances in School Choice Reported

    Published June 1, 1998
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    Nearly 32 states considered a school choice program of some kind in 1997, and at least 45 governors stated their support for different degrees of school choice or charter schools, according to a new report from The Heritage Foundation.
  • Indiana U. Voucher Analysis Labeled “Faulty”

    Published June 1, 1998
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    Contradicting the findings of an analysis conducted by Indiana University's School of Education, Harvard University researchers conclude from a re-analysis of the data that, in fact, students in Cleveland's choice schools show academic gains in all
  • Strap on the Armor and Go: Never Give In!

    Published June 1, 1998
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    Starting this month, Quentin L.
  • CORA Legislation Advances

    Published June 1, 1998
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    A bill that would strengthen Capitol Hill’s oversight of federal regulatory agencies by creating a new Congressional office to review the costs and benefits of proposed rules is picking up momentum. H.R.
  • EPA Charged With Widespread Abuse of Power

    Published June 1, 1998
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    In a landmark report released May 12 by the Alexandria, Virginia-based National Wilderness Institute (NWI), EPA is charged with grossly misusing science to achieve political ends; intimidating and harassing its own employees who question agency
  • Blowing the Whistle on EPA’s Widespread Abuse

    Published June 1, 1998
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    Editor's note: The following letter to the editor appeared in the June 10 issue of The Washington Times, and is reprinted here with permission.
  • Poison Pill Inactivated

    Published June 1, 1998
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    With the withdrawal of the California charter school initiative, a "poison pill" that would have closed the award-winning Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter School on June 30 has been deactivated.
  • School Reform Lessons from Texas

    Published June 1, 1998
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    Many lessons about accountability can be drawn from the successes of school districts across Texas, according to Policy Review assistant editor Tyce Palmaffy: Decentralization is critical.
  • New California Charter Law Boosts School Choice

    Published June 1, 1998
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    California's citizen initiative process scored a major victory for school choice on May 7, when Governor Pete Wilson signed into law a bill that dramatically strengthens the state's charter school law, allowing an immediate doubling of the number of
  • Founder’s Meeting Highlights Stunning Success of Private Voucher Movement

    Published June 1, 1998
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    CEO America's Fourth Annual Founder's Meeting was held on April 28-29 in New York City.
  • Black Leader Survives Teacher Union Attack

    Published June 1, 1998
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    The president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Ted Kirsch, orchestrated a $150,000 campaign of direct mail and radio advertising against Pennsylvania State Representative Dwight Evans, whose leadership led to the passage of a takeover bill for
  • The Mis-education of Secretary Riley

    Published June 1, 1998
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    U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley's "White Paper" speech to the National Press Club on September 23, 1997, repeats unsubstantiated criticisms from the teacher unions.