In what amounted to a media “night of the long knives,” last week Fox Business Network abruptly cancelled its three politics-oriented prime-time shows and starting February 20th will replace them with repeats of its earlier 5-8pm business related lineup. It would appear that
USA Today reports that part of President Obama’s much-anticipated plan for the economy, 3.0, might involve sending billions more in construction funding to our government school system: A plan to boost construction jobs nationwide by providing federal money to repair
Sabrina Schaeffer (close relation*) has a thought-provoking article up on NRO today about republicanism, gender and how Michele Bachmann might represent an emerging modern republican motherhood. What’s that? Here’s the gist, but its well-worth the full read: “The Republican Mother’s
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed an expansive new voucher law today. It’s a disaster for educational freedom. Read the full explanation here. The voucher program has been widely praised as a momentous victory for school choice and Gov. Mitch Daniels
South Carolina is one of the few states where school choice supporters have been working to pass a great education tax credit program that’s broad-based and well-structured (please excuse me if I sound like a cattle-breeder or wine-taster). Senator Jim
A few weeks back, I was preparing for a talk about school choice in Indiana. Since I was going to talk about how big a burden K-12 education is for state and local governments, I thought I should try to
School Choice Week is here, and there are a lot of people trying to spread the good word about the benefits of increasing educational freedom. But what benefit of choice is best to focus on? You can make at most
I have to say, I never thought I’d read a blogger on NRO endorse the notion that all of the money you earn belongs to the state. I certainly never thought that read it twice in a year. But here
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in an appeal of a 9th Circuit decision, Winn v Garriott, a challenge to one of Arizona’s education tax credit programs. It’s been getting more press than I’d expected, in
It’s fascinating to read Progressives as they think through a difficult policy problem. Kevin Drum writes (at Mother Jones!) that we can’t improve education or mitigate poverty: “I continue to think that the biggest problem here is simply that no
President Obama still gets overwhelming support from black, largely Democratic voters. His support hovers around 90 percent despite the economy and high unemployment. But a new poll out hints that Obama might have lost black voters on policy . .