Education (k-12)
Friday, July 6, 2007Merit Pay in a Union State?Incentives Plans in Michigan Schools Filed As: Education (k-12)Performance pay, of a sort, is coming to several school districts in Michigan. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy gives the details in its publication Michigan Education Report. In the abstract, this is a good: schools are ... more »»
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Friday, July 27, 2007Do Public Schools Serve Everyone?Filed As: Education (k-12)Opponents of parental choice in education sometimes defend the quasi-monopolistic position of government-run schools by saying that "private schools can refuse students, but public schools must serve everyone." Parents of special-needs children, however, are finding that the treatment they ... more »»
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Thursday, July 5, 2007Dumbing Down Tests?Filed As: Education (k-12)Are states cheating on their standardized tests? The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) provides a standardized program for comparing the educational record of states. It’s been around for over 30 years. Under more »»
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Friday, June 29, 2007ND Education Spending: On a (Don’t) Need to Know BasisFiled As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12), GeneralWhat is there to hide about North Dakota education spending? A North Dakota Policy Council policy paper recently suggested that school budgets be posted online. For this fundamental, progressive idea of transparent government, a North Dakota Democratic Party–NPL more »»
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Thursday, June 14, 2007If You Want it, You Must Ask FirstVictory for freedom of association, speech Filed As: Education (k-12), Employment, GeneralThe U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled that states may forbid unions from taking money without asking, at least from non-members who (still) have to pay a fee for collective bargaining expenses. more »»
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Friday, June 8, 2007Where Does Your Education Dollar Go?Mackinac report traces path of $12,000 per student Filed As: Education (k-12)Did you know that your state may use as many as 30 different taxes and tax transfers to pay for public schools? With a rat's nest like that, it's difficult to get a global understanding of school finance. But the folks at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy have come ... more »»
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Thursday, June 7, 2007Grading the SchoolsFiled As: Education (k-12)Do you really know how well your local school district is performing? If you live in Georgia, you're in luck. The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has put together a report card on school performance. A more »»
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Thursday, May 24, 2007Home Schoolers Add to Public EducationFiled As: Education (k-12)"Diversity" is a buzzword in education today. So how about an exploration of home schooling? There are more home-schooled students than students enrolled in charter schools, and they run the gamut from socially conservative Christians to counter-cultural lefties, with many people in ... more »»
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007Georgia: The Latest Breakthrough for School Choice$9,000 for qualifying families Filed As: Education (k-12)While many legislatures are content to pump more money into the status quo education establishment, forward-looking states are adding in measures of school choice. The latest to do so is Georgia. The Georgia Special Needs Scholarship allows certain parents to redeem at a private school the lesser of ... more »»
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Monday, May 21, 2007Parents Respond to School ChoiceSchools: Can't we get different parents? Filed As: Education (k-12)Do school vouchers benefit the wealthy? That was the argument made by People for the American Way when Congress enacted the DC voucher program in 2003. Yet it's not the wealthy who benefit from, and favor, the opportunity to choose. Washington Post columnist Fred Hiatt talks about it today, on the ... more »»
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