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Internet Taxation in California
PRI Testimony
3.29.2000
In 1998, the "Internet economy generated an estimated $301 billion U.S. dollars in total revenue and was responsible for 1.203 million jobs." As of October of 1999, the Internet economy was credited with providing 2.3 million jobs and was expected to have generated $507 billion dollars in revenue by year’s end. By 2003, it’s estimated that business-to-consumer sales will reach $108 billion dollars and business-to-business sales will reach 1.3 trillion.
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Forced Access: Promotes a "Digital Divide" of Grand Canyon Dimensions
Press Release
3.28.2000
San Francisco, CA – Forced access promotes the development of a "digital divide," deters innovation, and creates economic and regulatory costs according to A Primer on Forced Access, a new study jointly published by the Pacific Research Institute and the Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Institute.
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California Teachers, Parents, and Principals Support Charter Schools
Press Release
3.22.2000
San Francisco, CA – California charter schools are doing a better job of educating children than the schools their students previously attended, according to survey results in A Charter School Survey: Parents, Teachers, and Principals Speak Out, published by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
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Digital divide already closing fast
Technology Op-Ed
By: Helen Chaney
3.10.2000
Under President Clinton’s recently announced $2 billion technology plan, the government will siphon dollars from the pockets of taxpayers to offer high-tech companies tax incentives to help bridge the so-called digital divide.
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Per Pupil Spending Proposals
KQED Commentary
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.7.2000
In national rankings, California places low in per-pupil spending. Thus, raising state per-pupil spending to the national average is the current education reform "du jour." Both Democrats and Republicans in the State Legislature have proposals in the works.
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California Department of Education Mismanagement Out-of-Control
Press Release
3.2.2000
San Francisco, CA – Two audits and a Department of Justice investigation into possible criminal conduct reveal that the California Department of Education (CDE) is failing to ensure that billions in education funds are spent on student achievement rather than being wasted on fraud, abuse, and political payoffs. The details appear in "On No Account: The Accountability Crisis in California Education," a new briefing by the Center for School Reform of the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI).
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Of No Account: The Accountability: Crisis in California Education
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley, Thomas Dawson
3.1.2000
Education is so important to the future of California that Proposition 98 requires that it receive 40 percent of the state’s budget, more than any other item. Currently, the state spends more than $40 billion per year for K–12 education alone. Legislators look askance at a process in which those funds, rather than being spent in a way that increases student achievement, are wasted on fraud, abuse, and political payoffs. That situation currently exists with the California Department of Education (CDE) and is of sufficient gravity that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the CDE for possible criminal and civil violations.
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