Education (k-12)
Wednesday, April 11, 2007A "Special Place in Hell" for Charter School AdvocatesFiled As: Education (k-12)Political debates can get overheated, certainly, but one member of the education cartel invoked fire and brimstone in a discussion of charter schools. Ben DeGrow, of the Independence Institute, has the goods on how the chairman of the House Education Committee in the state ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007Are All States Now Above Average?Test Score Discrepancies Abound Filed As: Education (k-12)Remember the town where all students are above average? A similar exercise in wishful thinking is occurring in the states. "Far greater shares of students are proficient on state reading and mathematics tests than on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and those gaps have grown to ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 10, 20072006 a "Banner" Year for School Choice: StatelineFiled As: Education (k-12)Stateline.org offers a he-said, she-said update on the status of efforts to introduce competition to schooling through school choice measures such as vouchers and tax credits. Some efforts have in fact been repelled this year y ear, notably in Missouri and South Carolina. But Utah has enacted the ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007Arkansas Enacts Market-Oriented ReformsMurphy Commission recommendations approved Filed As: Education (k-12), GeneralAre policy shops such as the members of State Policy Network merely places for people to talk to each other? Thankfully, no; ideas do have a way of making their way into law. The Arkansas Policy Foundation reports that in April, two policy recommendations of the ... more »»
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Friday, March 30, 2007A Real Investment in Education: Tax CreditsFiled As: Education (k-12)Families want options in schooling, businesses want a well-educated workforce. A tax credit proposal in Maryland nicely ties those two concerns together. According to the Maryland Public Policy Institute, “The BOAST tax credit proposal would provide up to $25 million in partial tax ... more »»
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Friday, April 6, 2007"Smarter Babies" Plans Based on Faulty ScienceFiled As: Education (k-12)Since the K-12 system isn't working all that well in many places, the latest idea in education is to ... start the children learning even earlier. From USA Today comes the idea that maybe we haven't gotten this whole process of human development figured out just yet. The efforts to build ... more »»
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Thursday, March 22, 2007Savings from School District Consolidation Don't Add UpFiled As: Education (k-12)Is bigger better? Not when it comes to schools. Does district consolidation save money? You might think so if you focus on the job of superintendent, a high-dollar job. But consolidation won’t necessarily reduce head count, or even salaries. The more »»
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Thursday, March 15, 2007Budget Tightening, or Political Payback?Ohio Governor: Stop Voucher Program Filed As: Education (k-12)Ohio has been a leader in school choice, but recent progress is threatened by the state's new governor, who was backed by the state's teachers unions. Gov. Ted Strickland has called for scrapping EdChoice, the state's newest voucher plan. His stated rationale? Budgetary ... more »»
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007State Budgets Inspired by MythsFiled As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12), Health Care, TransportationBudgets are reflections of priorities, and in the world of public finance, a collective statement of how we think the world works. According to the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, the budget proposal of Governor M. Jodi Rell is based on a number of myths. Here's a summary from the ... more »»
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Monday, March 12, 2007Teachers on Strike?25 pct more than state average is "humiliating" Filed As: Education (k-12)The teachers union in West Virginia may stage a one-day strike Wednesday to protest a raise of 3.5 percent. Not enough money, the union says. The average teacher salary in the state is $41,388. According to USA Today, one ... more »»
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