Opinion
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Race to the Top Finalists Announced, Some Reforms Ignored
Opinion -The nation’s largest state was not among the 15 states and the District of Columbia chosen to advance in the competition for a share of Race to the Top funds, the Obama administration’s $4.35 billion pot of education-stimulus gold. -
Arizona Tax-Credit Scholarship Case Appealed to Supreme Court
Opinion -School choice activists in Arizona are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found the state’s 13-year-old tax credit scholarship program unconstitutional. -
Congress Weighs Increasing Federal Funding, Oversight of Charter Schools
Opinion -Congress is considering how to expand charter schools as part of its revamping of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. A bill by Rep. -
Key to Real Reform Is . . . Education
Opinion -From the intellectual, economic, and moral perspectives, school choice is so superior to the overpriced and underperforming status quo that its failure at the ballot box should raise questions about why such a good idea has had so little political -
Lawsuit: Pennsylvania School Spied on Students
Opinion -Today’s lesson: Students shouldn’t eat colorful candy in front of their computers. -
10 Disasters in Obamacare; 10 Real Reforms for Health Care
Opinion -The following analysis was written by Benjamin Domenech, managing editor of Health Care News, and designed by Senior Graphics Designer Kevin Leonard of The Heartland Institute as a flyer to handout during a tea party rally in Washington D.C. -
Federal Deficits Will Damage Tech Sector, CEA Chief Warns
Opinion -The head of the Consumer Electronics Association was not shy about criticizing rising federal budget deficits and sticking up for free markets when given a chance to publicly chide a member of the Obama administration. -
FCC Seeks to Direct USF to Broadband Support
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission is formulating plans to change the Universal Service Fund from supporting just traditional telephone service to also supporting buildout of broadband networks. -
The Ravitch Reformation Won’t Help Public Schools
Opinion -Diane Ravitch (“Why I Changed My Mind About School Reform,” March 9) illustrates why real education reform is too important to be left to “experts. -
Government Handouts? Just Say ‘No’
Opinion -If politicians are addicted to giving handouts to the American people, it’s because the American people are addicted to receiving them. Just ask Sen. -
Obamacare’s Two Americas
Opinion -Here’s the worst thing you probably haven’t heard about President Barack Obama’s health care plan, which he and his allies are about to force through Congress despite enormous opposition from the American people: It makes everything -
Unions Flood Public Sector, Drain Away from Private Sector
Opinion -The Bureau of Labor Statistics report on union membership for 2009 marked a historic turning point for organized labor and for the nation. -
Under New Management
Opinion -It’s springtime for school reformers and a time for renewal at School Reform News. Beginning with this issue, School Reform News has a new managing editor and The Heartland Institute has a new director of its Center for School Reform. -
Study: Milwaukee Choice Program Boosts H.S. Graduation Rate
Opinion -Students in Milwaukee’s two-decade-old voucher program are more likely to finish high school than their public school peers, new research shows. -
Anti-Choice Book Ignores Evidence of Need for Reform
Opinion -Review of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch (New York: Basic Books, 2010), 296 pages, hardcover, ISBN 9780465014910, $26. -
Federal Tort Reform Is an Awful Idea
Opinion -President Barack Obama has larded $50 million into his latest iteration of a health care bill, for grants to the states so they can “study” innovative ways of controlling medical malpractice costs. Please spare us. -
Obama Admin. Outlines Vision for ESEA Reauthorization
Opinion -U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says too many states lowered educational standards to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act. -
Expansion of Georgia Voucher Program Under Consideration
Opinion -School choice may continue its slow but steady gains in Georgia with legislation to expand the state’s voucher program to cover foster children and military families. -
Study: Labor Reform Would Boost Economy, Worker Freedom
Opinion -A new labor reform model could help jumpstart America's economy and restore workers’ rights. -
House Bill Promises Massive Subsidies for the Wealthy, Heartland Analyst Says
Opinion -A Heartland Institute policy analyst says a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittees on Housing and Capital Markets would result in enormous government subsidies for the well-off. -
Heartland Institute Debuts Budget & Tax News Webpaper
Opinion -(March 10, 2010) – The Heartland Institute today launched a new Internet-based newspaper focused on state and federal budget and tax policies at the third annual Wisconsin Defending the American Dream Summit.The site -- www.budgetandtax-news. -
NJ Development Awaits Rescue As Governor Calls for Surrender
Opinion -New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) has called on the developers of the nation’s largest entertainment and shopping complex to open it or “surrender the property” back to the state. -
Handout of Federal Education Money Flunks Every Test
Opinion -When various legislatures and education officials were considering applications for a slice of the federal Race to the Top fund, U.S. -
Michigan Mine Clears Permitting Hurdles
Opinion -The Kennecott Eagle Mineral Company in Michigan’s economically depressed Upper Peninsula has finally received the environmental permits necessary to reopen dormant Humboldt Mill, eight years after the company discovered rich nickel deposits nearby.