Opinion
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Global Warming Is a Manufactured Scare Story
Opinion -Norm Rogers, a Heartland policy advisor on the environment, spoke to about 50 members of the Legatus Society – a Catholic men’s group related to the legal profession, on Oct. 22, 2009 in suburban Chicago. -
Poll: Most Nebraskans Would Choose Private Schools
Opinion -Given the opportunity, nearly eight in 10 Nebraskans would choose to send their children to private schools, charter schools, or even homeschool them rather than send them to a public school, according to a recent poll. -
Pennsylvania’s Popular Tax Credit Hit by Budget Cuts
Opinion -Under a new budget adopted by the state legislature, Pennsylvania will reduce educational opportunities for students statewide receiving scholarships through the Educational Income Tax Credit Program (EITC). -
New Charter School Applications Multiplying in Louisiana
Opinion -Having seen the success of charter schools in Louisiana, 19 groups are currently seeking permission to allow them to open as many as 23 new charter schools in the state, in the hopes of enrolling students in the 2010-11 school year. -
Lakely Statement on FCC Net Neutrality
Opinion -James G. -
Arizona Tax Credit Program Offers Lessons for Other States
Opinion -When two Arizona newspapers this summer investigated the student tuition organizations (STOs) that distribute funds to needy students to attend private schools in the state, they opened the state’s school choice efforts up to attack. -
Consumer Power Report #198
Opinion -Boy, it is getting to be wacky season in Washington. I am glad to be able to get out of town from time to time. This week I was in Pittsburgh, next week in Roanoke and Richmond, Virginia. -
Arizona Governor’s Tax Hike Attempt Riles Lawmakers
Opinion -Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) has come under intense political fire for proposing to raise the state's sales tax during a recession.Things have become so heated that Brewer sued the state legislature in June. -
Special Education Vouchers Prevent Mislabeling
Opinion -A study by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research has found special education vouchers can keep children from being mislabeled as disabled.It’s important to make the distinction for two reasons, says Marcus Winters, Ph.D. -
Minnesota Implements Choice Innovations
Opinion -Teachers in Minnesota have a new opportunity for autonomy as a result of a recently enacted law allowing them to start their own schools. -
Overstock.com: ‘We’ll Continue to Terminate Affiliates’ Over Taxes
Opinion -In the continuing effort to try to shore up their budgets, many states are looking at Internet-based businesses as a source of potential funds. -
Teaching For America: The First Day
Opinion -Teach for America—the 19-year-old program that puts recent college graduates into underserved classrooms for two years—is an effort to make a difference in failing schools by bringing in a different kind of teacher. -
Gambling ‘May Add to Budget Imbalances’
Opinion -State and local government revenues from authorized gambling operations declined by 2. -
‘Net Neutrality’ Is Socialism, Not Freedom
Opinion -Advocates of imposing "network neutrality" say it's necessary to ensure a "free" and "open" Internet and rescue the public from nefarious corporations that "control" technology. -
I Was Cyberstalked by My Teacher
Opinion -For three years, a regularly updated Web site describing me as a "psycho" and my late mother as a "perverted drug addict” was available on the Internet. Another high school prank, maintained by a bullying classmate? Unfortunately not. -
Educate New Mexico Celebrates 10 Years
Opinion -A scholarship-granting organization that helps children attend the school of their family’s choice across New Mexico celebrated its 10th anniversary on October 1. -
Study: Alternative Teacher Certification Benefits Students
Opinion -A new national report credits alternative teacher certification programs for effectively filling teacher shortages. -
Physicians: Increased Government Control Is Not Health Care ‘Reform’
Opinion -While President Barack Obama and his health care overhaul allies assert "most doctors and nurses support reform," poll results from Sermo, an online physicians community, suggest otherwise. -
Governor Seeks to Loosen Limits on Massachusetts Charter Schools
Opinion -Massachusetts education reformers are hoping federal incentive funds will move state lawmakers to remove limits on charter schools, but they are prepared to take their case to the ballot box if necessary. -
DC Scholarship Cuts Protested
Opinion -On the morning of September 8 school choice advocates and education leaders gathered in front of the U.S. Department of Education building in an act of civil disobedience to show support for the endangered DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. -
Decline in Detroit vs. Stability in Milwaukee
Opinion -Your two articles about the decline of Detroit and its public schools (“In One House,” Sept. 26, 2009, and “Detroit Coaxes Students,” Oct. 1, 2009) failed to mention how teacher unions helped encourage that decline. -
Administrators Using ARRA Funds to Plug Budget Holes, Survey Finds
Opinion -According to a new survey of school districts by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), districts have not been using federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding to spur innovative school reform. -
2009 November Health Care News: (full text PDF)
Opinion -The November 2009 issue of Health Care News reports that citizen protests—including the September 12 March on Washington, which attracted hundreds of thousands of participants—have caused the White House to reconsider their support for a -
President Delays Nomination for Crucial Post
Opinion -Nine months into his term, President Barack Obama has yet to nominate anyone to lead the nation’s primary health care agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).