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PACE Report Flunks
Education Op-Ed
By: Thomas Dawson
9.30.1999
Despite the growing calls for school reform, a recent report released in Sacramento finds that school choice is already a reality for many families, and that student performance in such programs does not markedly improve. However, evidence throughout the nation suggests the report’s authors are just plain wrong.
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Internet Rating System Unwieldy and Unnecessary
Technology Op-Ed
9.29.1999
A proposal to rate Internet content on a global scale was the topic of a three-day summit held in Munich, Germany last weekend. If the plan is embraced, free speech and the growth of the Internet face dangerous times.
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Limiting Store Size
KQED Commentary
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
9.21.1999
Are you one of the millions of Californians who trucks down to the local Costco or Sam's Club to stock up on groceries, disposable diapers, or clothes for the kids? If you are, then you're on the State Legislature's hit list. In a monstrous attempt to restrict consumer choice, the Democratic majority in the Legislature recently rammed through a bill that will outlaw future construction of large warehouse stores with grocery departments.
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Charter Schools Challenge Failing Public School System; Offer Options to Parents and Students
Press Release
9.8.1999
San Francisco, CA – The establishment of charter schools – deregulated public schools run by community groups, including parents and teachers – is a powerful new movement that is expanding the options of parents and students, freeing educators from regulatory burdens, and pointing the way to wider choice in education, according to Expanding the Charter Idea: A Template for Legislative and Policy Reform, a new study by the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy.
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Mission Impossible for California Schools
Education Op-Ed
By: Gwynne Coburn
9.3.1999
California's current crop of legislators, having just returned from summer recess, agree that the state's public schools are not educating students. But instead of enacting desperately needed reforms, lawmakers are trying to expand schools' mission, a move that will both squander precious time and waste education dollars.
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