Opinion
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Texas Increases Graduation Requirements
Opinion -The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) met in Austin on July 6 and 7 to determine how it will implement a new law requiring high school students to have four years of math and science in order to graduate. Gov. -
State Legislators Draft Model School Choice Bills
Opinion -State legislators from across the country met in late July to advance education policy and craft model legislation during the American Legislative Exchange Council's 33rd Annual Meeting. After remarks from Nobel Prize-winning economist Dr. -
States Allow High Schoolers to Choose Majors, Coursework
Opinion -Education officials in Florida and Mississippi are overhauling their approach to secondary education, allowing high school students to choose a major and giving students more choice in what classes they take. In May, Florida Gov. -
Teach for America Popularity Soars
Opinion -When students walk into class as school opens this fall, chances are greater than ever their new instructor will be a graduate of the Teach for America (TFA) program. -
Reforming K-12 Education from the Outside In
Opinion -What can education reformers, including parents, do to help foster a more competitive environment to help improve K-12 education now, without having to await anyone's permission? -
School Choice Resource Directory
Opinion -Alexis de Tocqueville Institution 1611 North Kent Street #901 Arlington, VA 22209 phone 703/351-4969 fax 703/351-0090 http://www.adti. -
Residents Leave Mich. in Droves
Opinion -"Last one to leave, turn out the lights." In Michigan during the 1980s this was a frequent one-line joke. If recent trends continue, it will be no joke. -
Illinois County Will Borrow $200M
Opinion -For the first time in a decade, America's second largest county--Cook County, Illinois--has been forced to authorize a multimillion-dollar line of credit to pay current bills. -
Few in Congress Want Spending to Be Reduced, NTUF Study Shows
Opinion -Fewer than 1 in 10 members of Congress sponsored legislation last year that would have reduced federal spending, according to a new BillTally report issued by the nonpartisan National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF). -
Top Kansas Candidates Sign Taxpayer Protection Pledge
Opinion -Five candidates for governor, two other candidates seeking statewide offices, and 31 candidates running for the Kansas House of Representatives have signed the 2006 Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising not to raise state taxes if elected in November. -
Connecticut Residents Must Work Longer
Opinion -Connecticut residents are saddled with the burden of working 18 days longer than the average American taxpayer just to pay for government spending and regulations. -
Federal Regulation Costs More than $1 Trillion
Opinion -In a 2004 report for the U.S. Small Business Administration, W. Mark Crain of Lafayette College estimated annual costs related to federal environmental, safety and health, and economic regulations were a staggering $1.113 trillion. -
California Union Gives Up Pension ‘Spiking’
Opinion -A contract recently negotiated between the California Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 provides state workers with a salary hike of 3. -
Providence Wants to Close Pension System
Opinion -Providence, Rhode Island Mayor David N. Cicilline announced a plan to close the city's pension system to new workers and move them into a defined contribution plan, such as the 401(k) accounts offered at many private companies. -
Private Judgments + Public Policy = Sin Taxes
Opinion -There's no question many government officials like "sin" taxes as a revenue source. Other lawmakers, and many of their constituents, like sin taxes because they impose a financial penalty on activities they dislike. -
Ohio, Other States Do Big Business in Booze
Opinion -Statenet. -
NLRB Decision on Supervisors Could Limit Unions’ Power
Opinion -Labor unions are conducting rallies in cities across the country in anticipation of a decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dealing with the definition of a supervisor. -
Cape Wind Has Powerful Critics, Supporters
Opinion -The Cape Wind project has powerful opposition, including Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and the Bay State's senior Democrat senator, Edward M. Kennedy. An environmental group, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, also has worked against the plan. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #5-10
Opinion -A Squirrelly Lawsuit A lawsuit was filed in August against the owner of a shopping mall north of Chicago because the owner allegedly failed to remove a squirrel from the mall, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. -
Lebanon, Ohio to Sell its Municipal Broadband Network
Opinion -The city of Lebanon, Ohio disclosed in August that it is in discussions with Cincinnati Bell to sell the city-run cable television and Internet business. -
N.C., N.J. Approve Cable Franchise Reform
Opinion -North Carolina and New Jersey in July and August became the seventh and eighth states to pass laws authorizing statewide video franchising, while Louisiana Gov. -
Health Care in the News Nationwide
Opinion -Denver. The Denver Business Journal reported the local National Federation of Independent Business chapter was "going to Washington" to fight for Association Health Plan legislation that has been endorsed by 8,000 small business owners in Colorado. -
Thousands Use Ohio EdChoice Vouchers
Opinion -Ohio's EdChoice Program--a new, statewide voucher program--enrolled about 2,600 students in private schools this spring for the 2006-07 school year. -
Commentary: The School Choice Movement’s Greatest Failure
Opinion -Both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times jumped on the July 15 release of a new study by the National Center for Education Statistics. The WSJ's headline was particularly dramatic: "Long-Delayed Education Study Casts Doubt on Value of Vouchers.
