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An arbitrator paid by the California Teacher Association put an end to 10 months of hearings and deliberation in late November by ruling against 1,250 teachers who challenged the union’s claim about how it spends compulsory union dues collected from

When the petitioners for the Liberty Hall Charter School went into a November 24 public hearing on their proposal for a charter school in Libertyville, Illinois, they expected to explain their plan to the public and then respond to questions.

Last July, the Hudson Institute completed the publication of a six-part final report on its Charter Schools in Action project, a two-year study of the start-up problems and impact of charter schools.

Throughout the seemingly endless series of speeches and closed-door negotiating sessions at the recently concluded Kyoto conference on global warming, there was one word delegates wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole: science.

Tenure would go if New York City’s public schools were run by hard-nosed Big Apple residents.

In 1997, endocrine disruptors joined radon, Alar, dioxin, asbestos in schools, and electromagnetic fields in the rogues’ gallery of environmental hoaxes. In a letter published in the July 25 issue of Science, John A.

Those interested in starting a private voucher program from scratch will find many of their questions answered in a new “how-to” training manual from CEO America.

High school students in four Missouri communities--Clinton, Appleton City, Calhoun, and Windsor--are sharing classes through Sprint’s interactive distance learning technology.

Public health expert Steven J. Milloy is executive director of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) and publisher of the Junk Science Home Page (http://www.junkscience.com).

In the November 5 unveiling of his sweeping education reform agenda--calling for more charter schools, greater accountability for results, and school choice for every child--New Mexico Governor Gary E.

Thousands of Pennsylvania teachers were immediately made eligible for a reduction of their forced union dues when officials from the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the National Education Association settled out of court a potentially

With the 105th Congress no more able to clean up the Superfund mess than any of its predecessors have been, the nation finds itself saddled with a law that continues to misdirect public and private resources while providing few, if any, environmental

A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute calls for a dramatic shift away from the state’s present system of teacher licensure and university-based training, calling it “a costly, outmoded, and unreliable” way to secure high-quality

A successful National Training Workshop was held in Bentonville, Arkansas, on October 28-30.

Courtesy of The Virginian-Pilot, which developed this quiz, here are 10 questions based on material covered in Virginia’s Standards of Learning. 1. Twelve centimeters is how many inches? (4th grade) A) 4.8 B) 6 C) 5.

A report from the Minnesota Department of Transportation concludes that presently available electronic technologies would allow converting all 1,200-1,500 miles of congested roads in the Twin Cities to toll roads without the cost and inconvenience of

The scientific community’s alleged widespread support for the administration's global warming agenda is more a reflection of the White House's public relations skills than real backing from the scientific community, according to a study released

American Heritage Rivers Initiative The Idaho congressional delegation has asked the President’s Council on Environmental Quality to allow Idaho to opt out of any AHRI programs, saying that the state is already doing a good job with Idaho water quality

Changing Ohio’s system for funding public education would bring competition and increased accountability to the state’s public schools, and would immediately transform every child from a financial liability into a desirable asset, argues State

Policy prescriptions aimed at halting urban decline--community policing, green spaces, and tax cuts, for example--will do no good unless city schools are saved, concludes a new study from the Calvert Institute for Policy Research.

Under the terms of a bill approved 230-198 by the U.S. House of Representatives on October 23, families would have the opportunity to put after-tax dollars into special education savings accounts for their children.

Child-centered funding of education would produce the following benefits, according to Ohio State Treasurer J. Kenneth Blackwell: Better Educated Children--through the creation of a learning culture and by greater parental participation.

Educational choice opponents frequently contend that parents would be unable to make good choices for their children because they lack information on school performance, and thus might choose for superficial reasons.

Using precedents established by the U.S. Supreme Court in First Amendment rulings, the Institute for Justice’s Clint Bolick offers three rules of thumb for designing a legally sound school choice program.