Pacific Research Institute
Common Core
Why Race to the Middle?
Read PDF Study Executive Summary The case for national standards rests on more than the need to equalize academic expectations for all students by remedying the uneven and often deplorable quality of most state standards and tests. The case also rests on the urgent need to increase academic achievement for ...
California
Why Race to the Middle? Massachusetts and California K-12 State Standards Far Exceed National Standards Drafts
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meetings, a new report criticizes the national standards process as opaque and the federal push harmful not ...
Commentary
Obama’s Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation
President Obama this morning released a health care proposal that he will bring as a starting point for the bipartisan health care summit he is hosting Thursday. The plan closely follows the health care reform legislation that the Senate passed in December, but adds a new provision that would give ...
Business & Economics
Cut taxes to boost employment
Californias unemployment rate, according to the most recent figures, is 12.4 percent, fifth highest in the nation behind only such economic basket cases as Michigan and South Carolina. Californias second-largest city, San Diego, is known as Americas Finest City but hasnt been immune to unemployment problems. San Diegos unemployment rate ...
Commentary
Big verdict in health insurance case surprising for Lafayette woman
Even an experienced attorney can be surprised by a $37 million verdict. Even when its for their own client. It was not anywhere near what I had been expecting, said Marc Levy, the attorney for Jennifer Latham in a court fight against Assurant Healthcare that lasted more than three years. ...
Business & Economics
We asked, they answered
Washington should try being honest and sensible about health care legislation Will Barclay of Pulaski represents the 124th district in the New York State Assembly to which he was elected on the Republican, Conservative and Independence parties’ lines. By WILL BARCLAY Just four days after Bill Owens defeated Doug Hoffman ...
Commentary
Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation
The Institute for International Research presented “Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation” with futurist Ian Morrison, and Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute.
Health Care
Study Finds that Insurance Coverage Free of Benefit Mandates Would Enroll Nearly 17 million Individuals
San FranciscoThe Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released a new study, Entrepreneurs Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform by Health Care Studies senior policy fellow Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. The study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and ...
Charter Schools
Is there a Need for Charter Schools in Nebraska?
The Platte Institute held a press conference at the State Capitol Wednesday to release a study that outlines a need for Charter Schools in Nebraska. Nebraska’s lack of legislation for allowing charter schools in the state is holding back the quality of education in Nebraska. Platte Institute Executive Director John ...
Commentary
Money before unions
Orange County Register, January 7, 2010 blog.abwre.com, January 10, 2010 Sacramento legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger may have achieved one of the most elusive accomplishments in California politics: bucking the teachers unions. The Assembly passed a package of education bills Tuesday that give parents more authority to move their children out ...
Why Race to the Middle?
Read PDF Study Executive Summary The case for national standards rests on more than the need to equalize academic expectations for all students by remedying the uneven and often deplorable quality of most state standards and tests. The case also rests on the urgent need to increase academic achievement for ...
Why Race to the Middle? Massachusetts and California K-12 State Standards Far Exceed National Standards Drafts
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meetings, a new report criticizes the national standards process as opaque and the federal push harmful not ...
Obama’s Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation
President Obama this morning released a health care proposal that he will bring as a starting point for the bipartisan health care summit he is hosting Thursday. The plan closely follows the health care reform legislation that the Senate passed in December, but adds a new provision that would give ...
Cut taxes to boost employment
Californias unemployment rate, according to the most recent figures, is 12.4 percent, fifth highest in the nation behind only such economic basket cases as Michigan and South Carolina. Californias second-largest city, San Diego, is known as Americas Finest City but hasnt been immune to unemployment problems. San Diegos unemployment rate ...
Big verdict in health insurance case surprising for Lafayette woman
Even an experienced attorney can be surprised by a $37 million verdict. Even when its for their own client. It was not anywhere near what I had been expecting, said Marc Levy, the attorney for Jennifer Latham in a court fight against Assurant Healthcare that lasted more than three years. ...
We asked, they answered
Washington should try being honest and sensible about health care legislation Will Barclay of Pulaski represents the 124th district in the New York State Assembly to which he was elected on the Republican, Conservative and Independence parties’ lines. By WILL BARCLAY Just four days after Bill Owens defeated Doug Hoffman ...
Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation
The Institute for International Research presented “Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation” with futurist Ian Morrison, and Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute.
Study Finds that Insurance Coverage Free of Benefit Mandates Would Enroll Nearly 17 million Individuals
San FranciscoThe Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released a new study, Entrepreneurs Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform by Health Care Studies senior policy fellow Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. The study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and ...
Is there a Need for Charter Schools in Nebraska?
The Platte Institute held a press conference at the State Capitol Wednesday to release a study that outlines a need for Charter Schools in Nebraska. Nebraska’s lack of legislation for allowing charter schools in the state is holding back the quality of education in Nebraska. Platte Institute Executive Director John ...
Money before unions
Orange County Register, January 7, 2010 blog.abwre.com, January 10, 2010 Sacramento legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger may have achieved one of the most elusive accomplishments in California politics: bucking the teachers unions. The Assembly passed a package of education bills Tuesday that give parents more authority to move their children out ...
