Opinion
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NCLB Reauthorization Stalls on Capitol Hill
Opinion -The Bush administration and Congressional Democrats continue to pledge their commitment to seeing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) reauthorized during the 110th Congress. -
Report Asks: Should Super-Rich School Districts Receive State Aid?
Opinion -An October report by a respected budgetary watchdog group in New York has shed light on enormous differences in local wealth available to support public education. -
Teacher Sexual Misconduct Runs Rampant in U.S. Public Schools
Opinion -A seven-month investigation by The Associated Press revealed a disturbing amount of sexual misconduct by schoolteachers--usually toward students--in American schools. -
Return of Control Does Not Mean Newark Public Schools Are Improving
Opinion -While the state of New Jersey decided in October to return some control of schools to the Newark School District, one expert says the move doesn't necessarily mean student achievement is rising. -
Do Rural Telecom Subsidies Slow Broadband Growth?
Opinion -After a day at the annual Rural Telecom Conference, or Rural TeleCon, advocates of free-market policies had reason to emerge downcast. -
FCC Set to Revisit Cross-Ownership of Media
Opinion -The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is floating several proposals for changing certain media ownership rules in the United States. -
Congress Seeks ‘Bill of Rights’ for Wireless Users
Opinion -Under fire from consumer action campaigns and political pressures, Congress is considering legislation calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate terms of wireless user contracts, including early termination fees (ETF) and other -
RICO Suits Treat Companies Like Gangsters
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court in October refused to review a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision allowing a RICO suit against Microsoft and Best Buy to proceed in civil court. -
Microfinance Gets Online Presence
Opinion -A San Francisco-based Internet start-up is shaking up the microfinance world by offering online loans from individual volunteers. -
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Pharmacy Reimbursement Bill Stalls in Congress
Opinion -Community pharmacy owners nationwide watched with concern this autumn as U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) delayed scheduling hearings for federal legislation that may make or break their businesses' future. -
Study Identifies States’ Health Policy Reform Successes … and Mistakes
Opinion -On September 4, a public policy research group in Kansas released a study showing which health care reforms are--and are not--working in other states. -
Cancer Society Turns Ad Campaign Toward Politics
Opinion -Faces of Americans flash across the television screen as a narrator says, "This is what a health care crisis looks like to the American Cancer Society: People with cancer but without insurance, countless others with insurance, just not enough to cover -
Choice Is Key to Cutting Florida Dropout Rate
Opinion -Many people are stunned to learn that less than 50 percent of minority children graduate high school in Florida. -
Minnesota Becomes First State to Stop Billing After Medical Errors
Opinion -Minnesota's hospitals have formally agreed to stop charging patients and insurance companies for certain medical errors, such as operating on the wrong body part. As a practical matter, it's not really a huge change, hospital officials say. -
Tuscaloosa Parents Fight for School Choice
Opinion -Tuscaloosa, Alabama parents are pressing for the right to take their child out of bad schools and put them in good ones. -
Students Thrown Climate Life Preserver
Opinion -Two new children's books on global warming are out. One is designed to reduce anxiety among children; the other is designed to heighten it. So which is better? That depends on how you like your facts--right or wrong. -
Illinois Adjusts Electricity Price Structure
Opinion -Legislation altering the pricing structure of electricity took effect in Illinois on August 28, creating an uncertain future for electricity prices in the state. -
Two New Children’s Books Take on Global Warming
Opinion -Two new books on global warming for kids are out. One is designed to reduce anxiety among children; the other is designed to heighten it. -
What Is the Real Scientific Consensus on Pesticides?
Opinion -According to the Web site of the Environmental Working Group, "There is growing consensus in the scientific community that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can adversely affect people, especially during vulnerable periods of fetal -
Congress Approves 7-Year Extension of Internet Access Tax Moratorium
Opinion -Congress approved an extension of the national moratorium on Internet taxes one day before the previous moratorium was due to expire. -
FCC Revisits Special Access Rules
Opinion -The long-simmering struggle over special access fees is heating up as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins accumulating industry input on whether business or technology conditions have changed enough to warrant alterations in how it sets -
Consumers Face New ‘Net Taxes If Ban Expires
Opinion -Beginning this fall U.S. consumers could face a slew of new Internet taxes unless Congress extends or makes permanent a federal ban that is set to expire November 1. -
Prevailing-Wage Policy Drives Up Costs in Kentucky
Opinion -Prevailing-wage laws added 7 percent--nearly $137 million--to the cost of government construction projects in Kentucky in 2002, the latest year for which figures are available, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Research Commission (LRC).
