Education

Oprah Floods Scholarships Lines! The 12,000 phone lines for the Children's Scholarship Fund were jammed on February 2 after Wall Street investor Ted Forstmann appeared on Oprah Winfrey's television show to publicize the program.

Freightliner Makes School Buses Safer School districts throughout Florida have ordered more than 300 new Freightliner school buses with improved safety features, including increased driver visibility and maneuverability.

While unimpressed with most proposals in President Bill Clinton's 1999 State of the Union message, two GOP legislators--Representatives Dick Armey of Texas and Peter Hoekstra of Michigan--did find one idea they could support: Stop investing in

In an image-dominated atmosphere more reminiscent of an Academy Awards ceremony than a joint session of the U.S.

With education high on everyone's political agenda, two policy prescriptions heavily promoted as solutions to voter concern about the poor performance of public schools are more money and smaller classes.

Publicly funded vouchers are not a violation of the separation of church and state because the money goes to the parents, not to the school, explained Representative J.C. Watts Jr.

Kindergarten students who did not participate in the federally funded Head Start programs in Louisiana performed no worse in school than students who did, according to an audit by the Legislative Auditor’s Office.

Colorado * Illinois * Massachusetts * Michigan * Missouri New York * Pennsylvania * Vermont COLORADO New GOP Governor Speeds School Reform Republican lawmakers in Colorado are making up for lost time now that Democratic Governor Roy Romer

Like Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York, Michigan's Governor John Engler is looking to Chicago as a model for school reform: He wants to allow Michigan mayors to take control of underperforming local schools, just as the state legislature gave Chicago

"This is the plan for every state!" exulted Martin T. Angell on hearing that the Arizona Supreme Court had ruled in favor of the state's private scholarship tax credit plan.

Just one week after the President's State of the Union message reiterated that education is the primary concern of voters across the country, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) released a new study of U.S.

Last year, the Washington, DC-based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed suit on behalf of a group of parents in Massachusetts, asking a federal court to strike down the state's prohibition on aid to religious schools.

More school closings ahead. That was the bleak message delivered to parents when Catholic school officials from the Archdiocese of Chicago issued the system's annual schools report on January 28.

Author: Idea conceived by former lawmaker Trent Franks. Eligibility: Any individual who pays taxes to the State of Arizona. Donations made in a specific year are reported on tax returns for that year.

The televised GOP response to President Clinton's State of the Union speech was thick with philosophy but thin on specific proposals for meeting such priorities as giving “control of our schools to local communities," or giving parents "the opportunity

Although the American Jewish Congress immediately criticized New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's call for an experimental publicly funded school voucher program as not needed, and a violation of the separation of church and state principle, Jewish

Because of its commitment to defend parental choice programs whenever they come under attack, the Washington, DC-based Institute for Justice has picked up the gauntlet for parents in five educational choice cases across the country.

The school choice movement won another major victory when the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a 1997 state law that allows taxpayers to claim a state income tax credit of up to $500 a year for contributions to organizations offering scholarships at K-12

With a judicious mix of educational incentives and penalties, the tribal council of New Mexico's Sandia Pueblo has succeeded in reducing the dropout rate of its high school students to zero, thereby ensuring that all pueblo children graduate from high

To budget analysts, tax deductions and tax credits are "tax expenditures" because they result in the government "spending" tax revenues that otherwise would have been received. In Kotterman v.

"We admire Michael Jordan--not because he got the ball near, over, or in the direction of the basket--but in the basket. If schools lack clear standards, nobody knows the score--not educators, not parents, not kids, not the public." Herbert J.

More than two years before Arkansas' most famous son, President Bill Clinton, was impeached for lying about his "inappropriate" sexual relationship with a junior employee and for taking various illegal steps to cover up that relationship, a three-part

Immigrant parents and their children decisively reject bilingual education and emphatically agree that children should speak English.

In the absence of critical oversight, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed upon schools an ever-expanding burden of bilingual education requirements with dubious justification, charges a new policy study from the Center for Equal Opportunity