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Call to Pull Children Out of Public Schools
Opinion -A new coalition of concerned parents and educators is calling for parents to pull their children out of public schools and educate them in the safety of their homes or private schools, according to a recent news account from the Daily Herald, based in -
Connecticut Congressman Would Wall off Land in Five Western States
Opinion -“That land is not their land,” Representative Chris Shays (R-Connecticut) told Environment News, referring to the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. -
Federal Agency Turns off Farmers’ Water
Opinion -Farmers in the Methow Valley in northern Washington, who earlier this year saw their traditional irrigation sources shut down by the federal government, claim they are being coerced into giving up some of their water rights in order to protect -
‘Good sprawl’?
Opinion -I haven't heard of "good sprawl," and probably neither have you. That's because "sprawl" is one of those words it's almost impossible to use dispassionately. The negative judgment comes built in, as with "pollution. -
Inhofe, whistleblowers blast EPA for ‘totally ignoring science’
Opinion -Expressing his dismay over the treatment of science and scientists at EPA, Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) pledged to hold hearings soon to address the agency's abusive tactics. -
Kakadu to You
Opinion -At a summer meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, an attempt was made by that world-wide environmental bureaucracy to dictate land use in Australia. An alphabet soup of U.N. -
Livable Communities, Wise Land Use, and Corn
Opinion -There is nothing like a drive across the fruited plain--which, I get the impression, few liberal politicians have taken--to convince you that the free market, operated by free citizens, is the best arbiter of land use. -
News from the Presidential Race
Opinion -McCain Offers Voucher Amendment In a surprise move during Senate debate on the GOP tax bill, presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R_Arizona) offered an amendment to create a national school choice demonstration project for children from -
Scientists Decry ‘Atmosphere of Fear’ at EPA
Opinion -The misuse of science at the Environmental Protection Agency has gone from the "chronic to the acute," according to David Lewis, a 28-year veteran of EPA. -
Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Opinion -"Disorder occurs when many students do not recognize the legitimacy of school rules and violate them often. . . . Disorder can take the form of students arriving late, students wandering the halls, or even graffiti and litter. -
The Auto and its Enemies
Opinion -Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies and the Politics of Mobility James A. Dunn Jr. Brooking Institution Press, 1998 250 pages; paper $18.95, cloth $44. -
Venture Capital for Education
Opinion -Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have formed The New Schools Fund to apply the venture capital model to the K-12 education industry. -
Victim Impact Statement: New York Couple Wages Three-year Fight Against Bureaucrats
Opinion -When Tai and Adele Aguirre renovated a broken-down home in upstate New York in 1994, little did they know that would mark the beginning of a three-year legal nightmare with New York City bureaucrats that nearly cost them their livelihood. -
The New Rules of Federalism
Opinion -After a great deal of debate and deliberation, your Congress passes a law that says all employers must pay workers for overtime. That is the law of the land, and everyone must follow it, right? Wrong. The sovereign State of Maine doesn't have to. -
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.
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