Education

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

In a series of front-page articles just before Thanksgiving last year, Houston Chronicle reporter Thaddeus Herrick wrote about the Edgewood School District in San Antonio, Texas, where CEO America has initiated a ten-year project to determine the

Math achievement of students from low-income families improves only when family improves, right?

A federal judge has added nearly 500 teachers to a federal class-action suit originally filed over five years ago by a group of teachers who argued that union officials illegally demanded payment of dues or agency fees from them.

A new study of the 24 teacher union contracts currently in effect in Maryland reveals that county school boards are extraordinarily lenient with the unions and actually demand very little of public school teachers.

The members of the newly installed 106th Congress have been handed an historic opportunity to change the course of K-12 education, by changing the focus of federal education programs administered under the $13 billion-a-year Elementary and Secondary

A recent U.S.

". . . John Shockro, a popular teacher and coach in Mattapoisett, assaulted numerous girls over 23 years. He pleaded guilty last year to seven counts of child rape and six other sexual-assault charges involving two students from 1994 through 1996. . . .

If it is true, as public educators insist, that today's high school graduates face competition in a world-wide marketplace, then 1998 was the year when--from start to finish--U.S.

The remarkable success of El Paso, Texas, Superintendent Anthony Trujillo's schools and students over a six-year period brings a refreshing message of hope and promise--that urban school systems can be transformed into cost-efficient, high-performing

Georgia * Idaho * Illinois * Maryland New York * Ohio * Pennsylvania GEORGIA Mom, Put My Teacher in Jail In Savannah, Georgia, teachers are facing their worst nightmare: kids with “attitude” can have them arrested.

Florida Legislators Support School Choice A bipartisan group of legislators--including the chairwoman of the legislative black caucus--has promised to deliver school choice to Florida's parents next year and to work with Floridians for School Choice

Despite congressionally funded assessments documenting that the two programs have been failures from the beginning, some 1.

Results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) show that the longer U.S.

Although there is much debate among teachers and academics about whether the mostly white, mostly male, and mostly European heroes involved in stories of the nation's founding can have meaning for students whose backgrounds and origins are different,