Education
Business & Economics
California’s Revenue Problem – Educators Should Demand Economic Growth Not Tax Increases
In what is becoming a perennial affair, the California budget deficit is projected to be over $21 billion in the coming year – including a $6 billion hangover from this year. With the same degree of regularity, in pursuit of stable education funding (a good idea), educators in California are ...
Business & Economics
California’s Revenue Problem – Educators Should Demand Economic Growth Not Tax Increases
In what is becoming a perennial affair, the California budget deficit is projected to be over $21 billion in the coming year – including a $6 billion hangover from this year. With the same degree of regularity, in pursuit of stable education funding (a good idea), educators in California are ...
Commentary
Arizona Tax Credit Program Offers Lessons for Other States
School Reform News (Heartland Institute), December 1, 2009 When two Arizona newspapers this summer investigated the student tuition organizations (STOs) that distribute funds to needy students to attend private schools in the state, they opened the state’s school choice efforts up to attack. The list of groups and individuals that ...
Business & Economics
Why students and taxpayers should protest UC fee hike
Los Angeles Daily News, December 1, 2009 Roadrunner.com, December 1, 2009 CSU Northridge (CA): December 2, 2009 THE University of California Regents have approved a plan to raise student fees 32 percent over the next year and admit fewer students, the latest in a series of fee increases and service ...
Education
Another Victim of Medicaid (And Employer Benefits)
Mr. Kristof also recounts a horrible story: A man who suffers an abnormal growth of blood vessels in his brain, which has rendered him unable to work. Of course, he lost his employment-based benefits, and was unable to acquire individual insurance because of his severe condition. As usual, the story ...
Commentary
Awful school funding formula plagues Alameda County
CALIFORNIA’S FISCAL outlook continues to worsen. Concern is mounting over the impact the state’s budget deficit will have on education funding. The California Teachers Association (CTA), along with state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, claims California’s per-pupil funding now ranks 47th nationally. In reality, most experts agree California is ...
Charter Schools
Who’s Afraid of Charter Schools?
On November 12, parents of children at Gratts Elementary in Los Angeles received a flier, in Spanish, warning that if they signed a petition to convert their neighborhood school into a charter school they would be deported. This threat, though bogus, teaches parents and policy makers a lesson about the ...
Education
Support for School Choice is Strong in Virginia
Findings like these are bad news for traditional opponents of parental choice in education, including teachers union leaders. “All of this stuff about, ‘We need vouchers so we can send our kids other places, we need to provide choices, we need charter schools,’ all of it is simply an attempt ...
Commentary
LAUSD is selling out English Learners to fatten its finances
IT recently emerged that many Los Angeles students placed in classes for English-language learners in the early elementary grades were still taking such classes when they entered high school. That’s not a knock on the students, but a damning indictment of how government at all levels has sold them out ...
California
State must reveal, not conceal, school aptitude
San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2009 This year marks the 10th anniversary of California’s Public Schools Accountability Act, an early legislative triumph of then-Gov. Gray Davis. While some good things have come out of the law, the act has failed in its two key missions: to inform parents and the ...
California’s Revenue Problem – Educators Should Demand Economic Growth Not Tax Increases
In what is becoming a perennial affair, the California budget deficit is projected to be over $21 billion in the coming year – including a $6 billion hangover from this year. With the same degree of regularity, in pursuit of stable education funding (a good idea), educators in California are ...
California’s Revenue Problem – Educators Should Demand Economic Growth Not Tax Increases
In what is becoming a perennial affair, the California budget deficit is projected to be over $21 billion in the coming year – including a $6 billion hangover from this year. With the same degree of regularity, in pursuit of stable education funding (a good idea), educators in California are ...
Arizona Tax Credit Program Offers Lessons for Other States
School Reform News (Heartland Institute), December 1, 2009 When two Arizona newspapers this summer investigated the student tuition organizations (STOs) that distribute funds to needy students to attend private schools in the state, they opened the state’s school choice efforts up to attack. The list of groups and individuals that ...
Why students and taxpayers should protest UC fee hike
Los Angeles Daily News, December 1, 2009 Roadrunner.com, December 1, 2009 CSU Northridge (CA): December 2, 2009 THE University of California Regents have approved a plan to raise student fees 32 percent over the next year and admit fewer students, the latest in a series of fee increases and service ...
Another Victim of Medicaid (And Employer Benefits)
Mr. Kristof also recounts a horrible story: A man who suffers an abnormal growth of blood vessels in his brain, which has rendered him unable to work. Of course, he lost his employment-based benefits, and was unable to acquire individual insurance because of his severe condition. As usual, the story ...
Awful school funding formula plagues Alameda County
CALIFORNIA’S FISCAL outlook continues to worsen. Concern is mounting over the impact the state’s budget deficit will have on education funding. The California Teachers Association (CTA), along with state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, claims California’s per-pupil funding now ranks 47th nationally. In reality, most experts agree California is ...
Who’s Afraid of Charter Schools?
On November 12, parents of children at Gratts Elementary in Los Angeles received a flier, in Spanish, warning that if they signed a petition to convert their neighborhood school into a charter school they would be deported. This threat, though bogus, teaches parents and policy makers a lesson about the ...
Support for School Choice is Strong in Virginia
Findings like these are bad news for traditional opponents of parental choice in education, including teachers union leaders. “All of this stuff about, ‘We need vouchers so we can send our kids other places, we need to provide choices, we need charter schools,’ all of it is simply an attempt ...
LAUSD is selling out English Learners to fatten its finances
IT recently emerged that many Los Angeles students placed in classes for English-language learners in the early elementary grades were still taking such classes when they entered high school. That’s not a knock on the students, but a damning indictment of how government at all levels has sold them out ...
State must reveal, not conceal, school aptitude
San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2009 This year marks the 10th anniversary of California’s Public Schools Accountability Act, an early legislative triumph of then-Gov. Gray Davis. While some good things have come out of the law, the act has failed in its two key missions: to inform parents and the ...
