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Congress to Impose Collective Bargaining
Opinion -Congress is considering imposing unionism and collective bargaining on state and local public safety departments in states that have not given public-sector unions monopoly bargaining powers. H.R. -
Court-Ordered Spending Mandates Raise Taxes, But Don’t Help Education in the Long Term
Opinion -A new report questions the effectiveness of school funding lawsuits in generating the sustained results their plaintiffs seek. -
DC Opportunity Scholarship Program’s Future in Question
Opinion -About 1,800 children in Washington, DC headed to private schools in August using tuition scholarships provided through the DC Opportunity Scholarship fund. -
Examination of NEA Records Reveals Misdeeds
Opinion -The accounting practices of the National Education Association (NEA) could be more transparent in coming years, thanks to a nearly decade-long investigation by the Landmark Legal Foundation into the union's unreported political expenditures. -
Expensive New Solar Project Announced in California
Opinion -The northern California power company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) announced on July 25 it will purchase 550 megawatts (MW) of solar power at subsidized prices. The project is expected to receive the federal production tax credit of 1. -
Georgia Special-Needs Scholarships in High Demand
Opinion -More than 5,000 Georgia families have applied for special-needs scholarships since Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) signed the new program into law on May 18. -
Health Fears About Global Warming Are Unfounded
Opinion -Health care providers are buying into alarmist global warming theory and are concerned about the potential negative health effects of warmer temperatures, reported the August 12 Washington Post. -
Illinois Budget Approval Does Nothing to End Wild Ride
Opinion -Calls for impeachment; legislation introduced to allow voters to recall the governor and lawmakers; lawmakers calling the governor "a madman" and "insane"; $6,000 a day in air shuttle charges to take the governor from his home to the state capital; a -
Inconvenient Truth Producer Targets Children
Opinion -Unable to convince adults that global warming is a crisis, An Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David is trying a new tactic: Indoctrinating children to pull on their parents' heartstrings. -
Maryland Court Says Charters Must Get Equal Per-Pupil Funding
Opinion -On July 31, a 7-2 majority of the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled the state's charter schools are entitled by law to the same per-pupil funding other public schools receive. -
Missouri Court Weighs Wireless Tax Proposal
Opinion -A Missouri court reportedly is close to a decision on whether the state is entitled to some $500 million in taxes from wireless phone service providers. -
Mo. Fire District Is Challenging Pension Law
Opinion -The Mehlville, Missouri Fire Protection District Board of Directors has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of legislation recently signed into law by Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt (R). -
Muni Wireless Withers in San Francisco
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National Heritage Areas Are Federal Power Grab, Pork Scheme: Coalition
Opinion -Proposed National Heritage Areas threaten property rights throughout the United States, as documented by David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, in a congressional letter he has drafted. The U.S. -
New Orleans Charter Schools LEAP to New Heights
Opinion -New achievement test data show charter schools in New Orleans are consistently outperforming their traditional public school counterparts. -
Opponents Slow Video Franchise Reforms
Opinion -Alarmed by the prospect of cable franchise reform, opponents are twisting facts and employing false claims that locally produced news, programming, and community information broadcast on public, educational, and governmental (PEG) channels will disappear -
Penn. Legislature Approves Increase in Scholarship Tax Credit Funding
Opinion -When the Pennsylvania legislature finalized the state budget for the 2007-08 fiscal year on July 18, lawmakers increased the allocation for the Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) to $75 million, an increase of $16 million over last year. -
Professorial ‘Elite’ Blind to Problems in Gas Tax Proposal
Opinion -The rise in world fuel prices since 2005 has made many motorists uneasy about proposals to increase gasoline taxes. But this has not stopped a handful of distinguished economists and pundits from calling for large gas tax hikes. One is N. -
Renewable Energy Harms Environment, Says Leading Environmental Activist
Opinion -Rockefeller University's Jesse Ausubel, a prominent environmental advocate, has stunned other environmental activists by reporting in the July International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy, and Ecology that the use of renewable energy is wrecking -
Teachers Union Pushes Rollback of NCLB Standard
Opinion -As Congress prepares to debate reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, the nation's largest teachers union is pushing a revival of portfolio assessment as one way for schools and states to show they are producing results with their billions in -
The Truth About the DC Voucher Program
Opinion -This June, the U.S. Department of Education's first-year report on the impact of the nation's first federally funded school voucher program, the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), contained some very good news. -
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Choice and Keeping Standards High Key to NCLB
Opinion -For those who believe in limited government, could there be a worse nightmare than No Child Left Behind, the federal government's 5 1/2 -year-old venture in engineered school reform? Alas, there could be. -
Wisconsin’s Misguided Greenhouse Gas Efforts
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