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Businesses will protect your privacy
Technology Op-Ed
12.29.1999
If there’s one thing government bureaucrats seem to do better than anyone else, it’s inventing reasons for creating more and more pages of regulations.
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Governor’s “triple tax” proposal would tangle Internet
Technology Op-Ed
12.27.1999
Last week, the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce met in San Francisco to discuss taxing the Internet. One of the more prominent proposals, submitted by the National Governors’ Association (NGA), has been hailed by local government lobby groups as the “fair” course of action. But sweep away the rhetoric, and what consumers are left with is actually a triple tax grab in disguise.
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Controversy over SAT Exam
KQED Commentary
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
12.14.1999
Over this past year, there's been a loud drumbeat to de-emphasize the SAT exam, which is used by most colleges and universities to help determine admissions. The U.S. Department of Education has issued a draft guideline saying that colleges should rethink their use of the SAT if it adversely impacts minority admissions. Here in California, Gov. Gray Davis successfully pushed the UC Regents to admit pools of high-school students on grades alone. Why all this effort against the SAT, and is it justified?
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Let Lawmakers Discover Smaller Schools
Education Op-Ed
By: Thomas Dawson
12.1.1999
From President Clinton on down, cutting class size is a hit among politicians of almost every stripe. Despite spending billions on class-size reduction at the federal, state, and local levels, recent evidence suggests policymakers should have focused more attention on smaller schools, not smaller classes.
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