Education (k-12)
Tuesday, May 8, 2007Tax Me More, for the ChildrenFiled As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12)Shift and shaft? Bill Ritter, governor of Colorado, wants to increase property taxes by $1.7 billion over the next ten years. Jon Caldera, however, finds a lot wrong with the idea. Caldera, president of the Independence Institute, says in an e-mail broadcast that the ... more »»
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Thursday, May 3, 2007School Vouchers More Common than You ThinkFiled As: Education (k-12), PrivatizationEnablers of the government-school establishment insist that vouchers are dangerous for education. Yet vouchers (or their equivalents) are used all the time, and not merely in the well-known cases of Milwaukee and Cleveland. Writing for the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Patrick B. McGuigan ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007Don't Governmentize the Toddler YearsFiled As: Education (k-12)One of the latest fads in K-12 education is to transform it into preK-12. Very young children are learning all the time. But should that mean that we turn them over to the taxpayers? In today's Wichita Eagle, I address the argument for ... more »»
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Monday, April 23, 2007Georgia Passes First Voucher LawGeorgia Special Needs Scholarship Act Filed As: Education (k-12)Modeled after Florida's successful McKay Scholarship program, the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act, provides up to $9,000 for each special needs student currently enrolled in a public school. If signed by the ... more »»
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Friday, April 27, 2007Fund a Student, or the General Fund?Tuition tax credits popular with business Filed As: Education (k-12)You own a business, which means of course that you have an interest in a well-educated population. Given that, where would you prefer to send your tax dollars: to the general fund, where they will be swallowed up by a good deal of pork barrel spending, or to contribute to the education of a young ... more »»
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Thursday, April 26, 2007Charter School Advocates ConveneFiled As: Education (k-12)Even though the charter school idea has been around for 15 years, it still faces foot-dragging and opposition, not to mention misunderstanding. This point came home as I read a short write up from the more »»
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Thursday, April 26, 2007Charter School Expansion in ArkansasOne small victory for competition and choice Filed As: Education (k-12)The policy environment for charter schools ranges across the states from fairly favorable to suspicious and hostile. In Arkansas, the outlook for charter schools got a little bit better. The Arkansas Policy Foundation reports in a memo (not online) that the ... more »»
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Friday, April 13, 2007Large Size Fits ... FewFiled As: Education (k-12)Does buying in bulk work? Not when it comes to schools. National Public Radio took a tour of some high schools in Baltimore, and offers up a report on smaller schools. By tiny steps, the behemoths of bureaucracy are being ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007Smart Billionaries Make Dumb Choice$60 Million to do More of the Same Filed As: Education (k-12)With public education now spending more money than the Pentagon and still delivering suboptimal results, you might think that two guys with a lot of money to throw around would call for some major changes. Sadly, such is not the case. Eli Broad and Bill Gates have announced that together their ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007Georgia Think Tank Operates Successful Charter SchoolLow-income, minority students benefit from choice Filed As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12)For three years, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has operated a charter school in the Atlanta Public Schools system. In March, The Economist noted that GPPF's Tech High "spends ... more »»
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