Falling back to 1970s-style desegregation policies like busing ignores new schooling options that weren’t available decades ago and which offer better educational opportunities for minority students. Read more
The California Department of Water Resources just took stock of the state’s water supplies. And while reservoirs appear well-stocked, officials are already urging residents to conserve water in preparation for an expected shortage in the summer of 2013. Read more
Last week, pharmaceutical company Roche announced that it was scrapping work on a once-promising cholesterol medicine at the recommendation of its independent data and safety monitoring board. Read more
If you were a public employee, what would your pension be?
PublicSectorInc.org, a project of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, has launched six new state calculators allowing taxpayers in Arizona, California, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina, and Oklahoma to calculate how much they would receive in retirement benefits if they were public employees. Click here to calculate what your pension would be in one of these states. Read more
When California agreed to replace its own rigorous state student-learning standards with the comparatively less difficult national standards supported by the Obama administration, questions immediately arose about the impact of this monumental shift on education practices in the state. Read more
Leave it to our leaders in Washington to spend a dollar to save a dime. Congress just announced that a $77-million computer system put in place last summer to combat Medicare fraud had saved taxpayers a grand total of $7,591 through the end of the year. Read more
Researchers from Harvard University and the City University of New York have cautioned that the federal government's multibillion-dollar investments in health information technology might not be the boon their proponents claim.
A month after the Supreme Court heard three days of arguments over the constitutionality of Obamacare, the debate continues unabated outside the courtroom. Read more
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