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The New Hampshire school funding case was filed originally in 1991 by five school districts, five students, and eight taxpayers and parents, known collectively as the Claremont Lawsuit Coalition.

Students from the first modern classical education school, Logos School in Moscow, Idaho, regularly outperform their peers in statewide academic contests, such as the Idaho State Law Foundation’s Mock Trial competition.

Lame-duck Illinois Governor Jim Edgar started the first day of his last full year in public office by wielding his veto pen to quash almost a year of effort by Illinois lawmakers to build bipartisan support for a $500 tuition tax credit bill.

A short Congressional schedule, the political realities stemming from divided government, President Clinton’s uncertain political future, and a general lack of agreement on how to address a host of highly controversial environment issues--all make it

The Clinton administration’s wetlands policy suffered a significant setback last December when an appeals court ruled that the U.S.

State legislators and federal regulators seeking to improve the quality of the environment by introducing strict “toxic use reduction” (TUR) programs may want to reconsider their efforts.

In a quiet revolution that has received little public notice, schools embodying the principles of classical education--the education that gave us Western Civilization--are being organized across the country, teaching students at all grade levels and

One who can’t spell. Another who falls asleep in a class of 5-year-olds. Thanks to tenure job protection, it’s virtually impossible to fire either teacher. What’s a parent to do?

Limited as the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program is--enrolling only 1,650 of the city’s 70,000 school children--it has had a profound effect on the Milwaukee Public School System, according to New York Times columnist Brent Staples: In Milwaukee,

Although critics of vouchers label them as a giveaway to the rich, a new study of census data shows that only 11 percent of the children attending elementary parochial schools come from families earning over $50,000 a year.

Few movie-goers will forget the scene in The Graduate in which Dustin Hoffman’s character is pulled aside at his graduation party by an older gentleman with a bit of advice for the future: “Plastic.

Shrugging off the limitations of distance, time, and physical presence, technology and education have come together to create the first Virtual High School on the Internet, available on demand, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Good Housekeeping recommends that parents take the following steps when they have concerns about their child’s teacher. 1. Go see for yourself: Get to know your child’s teacher as well as you can. 2.

The recently negotiated Kyoto Protocol is “dead on arrival,” according to Congressional opponents of the treaty who are, in the words of Senator Chuck Hagel (R- Nebraska), ready to “kill it on the Senate floor.

Less than six months after President Clinton endorsed stringent new air quality standards for particulate matter (PM) and ground-level ozone, the Environmental Protection Agency has been forced to increase five-fold its original projections of the

EPA is fond of saying that only “big polluters” need fear its new standards for ground-level ozone and particulate matter (PM). However, it turns out that one of the “big polluters” is the “family farm.

Few things are more unsightly than a pile of discarded tires. Unfortunately, America has quite a few such piles. There are about 3 billion abandoned tires in the U.S., with another 200 million being added each year.

By committing the United States to a series of far-reaching steps it says are necessary to combat the threat of global warming, the Clinton administration has set the stage for a dramatic confrontation with the Senate and other powerful segments of

In a watershed decision, the Supreme Court has provided significant new access to federal courts for landowners. In its December 15 ruling on City of Chicago v.

Shrugging off the limitations of distance, time, and physical presence, technology and education have come together to create the first Virtual High School on the Internet, available on demand, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Although there was only one charter school in the country when Bill Clinton was first elected to the White House in 1992, the President wants to see 3,000 charter schools in operation by the year 2000 when he prepares to step down.

In November, The Seattle Times published a comprehensive guide to 535 public and private elementary, middle, and junior high schools in the greater Seattle area.

A coalition of civil rights groups helped raise over $300,000 of a $433,500 out-of-court settlement to an eight-year-old affirmative action case brought by a white New Jersey teacher who was laid off by the Piscataway Board of Education while a black

In a report issued December 19, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has raised alarms over mercury levels in fish and the risks faced by humans who consume it.