Publications
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Public Education Is Being Redefined
Publication -Research and Commentaries -On March 15 in Oklahoma City, the past met the future. -
Research & Commentary: Higher Education Regulations and the Disadvantaged
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Congress and the president stress the importance of providing higher education opportunities to traditionally disadvantaged groups. At odds with this agenda, however, are federal regulations that are being put in place affecting for-profit colleges. -
How Teachers in Texas Would Benefit from Expanding School Choice
Publication -Policy Briefs -Teacher unions often lead the opposition to legislation that would expand the ability of parents to choose the schools – whether public or private – their children attend. -
Transformational Innovation in K-12 Education: Achieving More, Spending Less in Schools, Districts, and States
Publication -Books -Transformational Innovation in K-12 Education: Achieving More, Spending Less in Schools, Districts, and States is an edited and revised version of a publication prepared for the Center on Innovation & Improvement, for which author Herb Walberg, chairman -
Budget Impact of the Texas Taxpayers’ Savings Grant Program
Publication -Policy Briefs -The Taxpayers’ Savings Grant Program (TSGP) is a very concise piece of legislation, apparently intended to address the state’s looming biannual budget deficit by reducing enrollment and associated costs in he state’s public K-12 schools at a time of -
How Teachers in Texas Would Benefit from Expanding School Choice
Publication -Policy Briefs -Teacher unions often lead the opposition to legislation that would expand the ability of parents to choose the schools – whether public or private – their children attend. -
Transformational Innovation in K-12 Education: Achieving More, Spending Less in Schools, Districts, and States
Publication -Books -Transformational Innovation in K-12 Education: Achieving More, Spending Less in Schools, Districts, and States is an edited and revised version of a publication prepared for the Center on Innovation & Improvement, for which author Herb Walberg, chairman -
Tapping the Rainy Day Fund & School Fund Balances
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Balancing the 2010-11 Budget without Raising TaxesThe Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF): Appropriate Uses and Legislative HistoryThe language in the Texas Constitution governing the use of the ESF reads in part as follows:If an estimate of anticipated -
Tapping the Rainy Day Fund & School Fund Balances
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Balancing the 2010-11 Budget without Raising TaxesThe Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF): Appropriate Uses and Legislative HistoryThe language in the Texas Constitution governing the use of the ESF reads in part as follows:If an estimate of anticipated -
Ten Principles of Higher Education Reform
Publication -Legislative Principles -The dissemination and expansion of knowledge is important to the advancement of our civilization and our nation’s economic productivity, yet the cost of that effort is considerable and rising dramatically. -
Research & Commentary: Higher Education Regulations, State Authorization
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The U.S. Department of Education will begin implementing two new regulations on for-profit colleges in July 2011. -
Policy Tip Sheet No. 5 – Iowa Preschool Funding Subsidy
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Iowans are currently funding a universal statewide preschool program at more than $3,500 per child. The program cost the state more than $70 million last year, and the costs have been growing since its inception.Gov. -
School Choice Is Back
Publication -Research and Commentaries -School vouchers, like the Republican Party, are back in a big way. The question for vouchers, as for the GOP, is: Have they learned their lesson?Just a few years ago, the smart people were declaring vouchers dead. -
Research & Commentary: School Vouchers Are a Cost-Saver for Taxpayers
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The evidence is in: If your goal is efficiency and saving tax dollars, K-12 education voucher programs are an astounding success. -
Parents should have choice in education
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A vast majority of Tennesseans believe their public school system needs changing, as found by a recent Vanderbilt University poll. -
Research & Commentary: Indiana Parent Trigger
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Schools in Indiana are failing to make the grade, and parents are afforded virtually no recourse when their children fall victim to a failing school. -
Policy Tip Sheet No. 1 – North Carolina Parent Trigger
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -ProblemAccording to The Heartland Institute’s 2010 State School Report Card, North Carolina public education ranks 47th in the nation in terms of Learning Achievement and receives an “F. -
The Blob That Ate the Schools
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Here’s an eye-opening school statistic for you: Only half of Oklahoma’s public education employees are teachers. The bureaucracy is now so big, it takes up half the system. It’s the blob that ate the schools. -
Collective Bargaining in California Charter Schools: Cooperation or Conflict?
Publication -Policy Studies -As unions begin to target charter schools, James Moss in his doctoral dissertation for the University of Southern California describes the effects a unionizing workforce has on charter teachers, administrators, and students' educations. -
How Higher Tuition Translates into More Debt for State Universities
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The S.C. Budget and Control Board recently announced a moratorium halting construction at four-year public institutions that raised tuition by 7 percent or more for the 2010-2011 school year. -
No. 129 2010 State School Report Card
Publication -Policy Studies -A Nation at Risk pointed out more than 25 years ago that the poor quality of public schools in the United States is a threat to the continuing prosperity of the country. -
Higher Education in South Carolina: Cut Administrative Costs and Focus on Student Performance
Publication -Research and Commentaries -While South Carolinians can take pride in our state’s higher educational system, costs and tuition have skyrocketed in recent years, even as graduation rates remain below 40 percent. -
Research & Commentary: Constitutionality of School Voucher Programs
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In this year’s session the Illinois state legislature failed to pass a voucher bill benefiting low-income students in failing Chicago schools. Legislators expressed concern about the measure’s constitutionality. -
School Vouchers, Prosperity, and Job Creation
Publication -Research and Commentaries -States and localities are struggling with the need to slow the growth of spending for public K-12 education, while government employee unions and some legislators continue calling for ever-more money.
