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The Coronavirus and Rigid Education Policy
April 8, 2020 As the COVID-19 crisis continues, much of the Big-Ed/Big Union complex maintains its inflexibility. With U.S. schools closed, educators across the land are scrambling to figure out how to provide instruction to millions of students via computers. Granted, an immediate switch to distance learning is not easy for school districts, which by and large have been faithful to the calcified 200 year-old Prussian model of education.
Report: Minority Students Receive a Better Education in Conservative Cities Than They Do in Progressive Ones
April 2, 2020 A new study finds “conservative” cities do a far better job of educating minority students than “progressive” cities. “Conservative” cities do a far better job of educating minority students than “progressive” cities.
News - Pearls of Venom | Heartland Institute
April 1, 2020 Los Angeles teacher union leader is using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to trash charter schools. Due to the coronavirus, many of us are going out of our way to be nice – helping the elderly and infirm, shopping for a family that fears leaving home, limiting ourselves to purchasing just one package of toilet paper, and doing other acts of kindness.
Unions Deploy Teacher Strikes to Stop School Choice
March 26, 2020 Chicago teachers unions expressed their opposition to charter schools in 2019 by demanding the continuation of a moratorium on additional charter schools in the city. Teacher strikes in Chicago and Los Angeles were two of the largest union actions in 2019, among an increasing number of protests by educators in government schools that included demands for restrictions on charter schools. Charter schools, a form of school choice, are less-regulated public schools.
NC Judge Orders State to Spend $8 Billion More on Education
March 25, 2020 North Carolina Superior Court Judge David Lee ordered the state to formulate a plan to increase spending on K-12 education by an estimated $8 billion. North Carolina Superior Court Judge David Lee ordered the state to formulate a plan to increase spending on K-12 education by an estimated $8 billion. “North Carolina’s PreK-12 public education system leaves too many students behind—especially students of color and economically disadvantaged students,” Lee’s order stated.
Profile: James G. Martin Center Works for Free Speech, Viewpoint Diversity
March 24, 2020 Since its founding, the Martin Center has defended freedom of expression on campus, with a special focus on colleges and universities in North Carolina. Higher education is in a state of disarray, with students and parents worrying about bloated loan balances and the value of college and others concerned about schools abandoning the pursuit of truth in favor of conformity to fashionable ideologies.
Taxpayer Protection Pledge Works, Thanks to Americans for Tax Reform
January 23, 2020 By Chris Butler ATR is known for the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, policy advocacy at the state and federal levels, and its wide-ranging coalition-building efforts. Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) was founded by Grover Norquist, its president, in 1985 at the request of President Ronald Reagan as the grassroots-organizing effort supporting the Reagan agenda. The organization’s name comes from what became the historic Tax Reform Act of 1986.
Wyoming Lawmakers Consider Imposing a Corporate Tax
January 3, 2020 The bill could be considered during the next session of the legislature beginning in February 2020. Wyoming legislators are taking a second look at a proposal to impose a corporate income tax on companies with more than 100 shareholders. The state legislature declined to pass a proposed corporate income tax bill limited to retailers, restaurants, and hotels during the session earlier this year.
Colorado Voters Reject State’s Plan to Spend Their Tax Refunds
December 23, 2019 Prop. CC would have amended Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) Colorado voters rejected Proposition CC (Prop. CC), an initiative proposed by the state legislature that would have permanently allowed the government to keep excess tax revenue instead of returning it to taxpayers. Prop. CC would have amended Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), a provision capping state spending and tax increases to the rise in population plus inflation.
Tax Foundation Report Assesses Economic Damage of ‘Carbon Taxes’
December 18, 2019 Revenue from taxes on carbon-dioxide emissions could be redistributed in various ways Taxes on carbon dioxide emissions could damage the economy, a new analysis states. Three different carbon-dioxide tax bills are under consideration in the current Congress: Sen. Chris Coons’ (D-DE) Climate Action Rebate Act of 2019 (CAR Act), Rep. Francis Rooney’s (R-FL) Stemming Warming and Augmenting Pay Act (SWAP Act), and Rep.
Jersey City Voters Could Ax Restrictions on Short-Term Rentals
September 30, 2019 Voters submitted a petition to put a new city ordinance on the ballot this November. Voters in Jersey City, New Jersey will decide the fate of a controversial ordinance that restricts short-term room and apartment rentals, when they go to the polls on November 5.
Red-Light Cameras Undermine the Rule of Law
September 20, 2019 Among the constitutional issues raised by the use of these cameras is the potential violation of the Sixth Amendment. Speed and red-light cameras are the bane of many motorists. A modern idea made possible by technology, they have been installed in at least 24 states. Although these cameras are a revenue boon for governments across the nation, their intrusion into daily life is disturbing, and their constitutionality is dubious.
New York Legislature Passes Sweeping Farm Labor Regulations
August 19, 2019 The New York state law requires farms to allow workers to engage in collective bargaining rights and would impose overtime pay requirements and eligibility for unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation. A new law in New York substantially changes labor policy toward farms in the state. Agricultural workers are not covered by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, leaving the states to decide whether and how to regulate worker-management issues in the farming sector.
Trump Administration Proposes More Flexible Apprenticeship Rules
The Trump administration is proposing a regulatory rule that would expand access to apprenticeships by allowing private enterprises, colleges, and other nongovernmental entities to set standards for training programs. Currently, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regulations under the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937 require these programs to be approved by DOL or state-level agencies.
Country Time Offers ‘Legal Ade’ to Entrepreneurial Children Thwarted by Regulations
August 13, 2019 By Juliana Knot Operating a business generally requires a permit, and food-sellers are subject to the requirements of state and local health codes. The traditional American lemonade stands set up by children in the summertime to make pocket change have a problem: they are illegal in many places.
Trump Deregulation Will Save $3,100 Per Household, CEA Reports
August 8, 2019 The goal of the Trump regulatory agenda is “to reduce costly regulation, while protecting workers, public health, safety, and the environment,” the report states. The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the burden on the U.S. economy from unnecessary federal regulations have met with success, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) reports.
How Some Teacher Unionistas Spent Their Summer Vacation
August 6, 2019 The “Red for Ed” movement is becoming redder by the day.
Ohio Court Blocks State’s Restrictions on Red-Light Cameras
August 5, 2019 Under the law, cities using automated traffic-enforcement cameras are required to report to the state any revenues generated by the fines from the cameras. An Ohio court has granted an injunction blocking a new state law intended to restrict the use of red-light cameras. Under the law, cities using automated traffic-enforcement cameras would have to report to the state any revenues generated by the fines from the cameras.
The Teachers Unions’ Spotty Progressivism
July 31, 2019 When it comes to public charter schools and any meaningful education reform, the teachers unions are staunch reactionaries. In the political arena, teachers unions are far to the left. However, when it comes to serious education reform and any kind of school choice, they are committed to maintaining the all-too-often failing status quo.
West Virginia Enacts State’s First Charter School Legislation
July 30, 2019 A previous school choice bill passed the state Senate but was stopped in the state’s House of Representatives after a statewide, two-day strike by teachers’ unions. West Virginia enacted legislation allowing charter schools for the first time in the state’s history. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed H.B. 206 into law on June 28. The new law allows the creation of three charter schools by 2023. After 2023, up to three additional charter schools can be created every three years.
Why Are Lawmakers More Concerned with Youth Vaping than Opioid Abuse?
April 10, 2019 Why are lawmakers working so feverishly to limit their access to tobacco harm reduction products like e-cigarettes? The hypocrisy is seemingly endless. In the latest installment of the youth vaping fear-mongering campaign, U.S. Sen.
Are Norway and Sweden Socialist Countries?
January 10, 2019 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the new face of the progressive left, says she wants socialism as it is practiced in Norway and Sweden, not as it is or was practiced in the Soviet Union, Cuba or Venezuela. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the new face of the progressive left, says she wants socialism as it is practiced in Norway and Sweden, not as it is or was practiced in the Soviet Union, Cuba or Venezuela.
News - Arizona Considers Dental Therapy Bill
A bill that would authorize dental therapists in Arizona is under consideration in the state’s Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. The committee, chaired by state Sen. Nancy Barto (R-Phoenix), heard testimony on Senate Bill 1377 (S.B. 1377) on February 7. Dental therapists are similar to primary-care nurse practitioners, providing a limited set of services. A dental therapist operates under the supervision of a licensed dentist to perform basic dental treatment and preventive services.
News - HuffPost Atttempts to Smear Heartland Again
We understand HuffPost may be writing an article based on a disgruntled former employee’s false allegations that The Heartland Institute has tolerated sexual harassment in the past. The accusation is completely false. Heartland always has had policies and procedures in place to ensure a professional and safe environment for its employees. Heartland’s policies allow us to remove problem employees quickly – and certainly faster than HuffPost.
News - Taxpayers Challenge Denver, Colorado Nonprofit Disclosure Law
Working with lawyers from the Goldwater Institute, taxpayers in Denver, Colorado are challenging a new city law requiring nonprofit political organizations to identify their donors publicly. Starting January 1, 2018, nonprofit 501(c)3 and (c)4 organizations spending $500 or more a year on local ballot measures will be required to report publicly the names and addresses of all donors contributing at least $50.
News - How to Dismantle ‘Social Justice’
The prevailing political discourse seems to be consumed with the bromides of social justice, carefully tended by political and intellectual classes claiming special knowledge of its demands. Friedrich Hayek, perhaps the greatest intellectual of the past century, was famously critical of the concept. “Justice is an attribute of individual action,” Hayek said. “I can be just or unjust towards my fellow man.
News - Pennsylvania Reforms State Employee Pension System
Starting in 2018, Pennsylvania government employees will have more options for saving for retirement, in the wake of a sweeping new pension reform law. The new law, which took effect upon signing by Gov. Tom Wolf (D) on June 12, places almost all state government employees in a hybrid public pension program, with half of their pension benefits coming from taxpayer funds and half from employee contributions.
News - CBO Score Muddies American Health Care Act Debate
A hotly disputed Congressional Budget Office analysis says the version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would result in lower health insurance premiums and fewer insured individuals than under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Premiums would decline by 20 percent under AHCA in the approximately one-third of states likely to apply for federal waivers allowing them to opt out of certain Obamacare mandates, CBO stated in an estimate on May 24.
News - Is Economics a Hard Science?
The disciplines we call the “hard sciences” such as chemistry and physics inhabit the cold, sterile world of laboratories, uncontaminated by a boundless assortment of potential impurities. Today, economics pretends to be one of the hard sciences, yet the laboratories provided by the real world are disorderly, even chaotic, insusceptible to sanitization and control.
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