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Obama's Education Takeover
2.8.2012 6:00:00 PM

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Health Care Reform: A Different Path - Current Federal Plan May Be Bad For Your Health
2.2.2012 11:30:00 AM
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1.26.2012 5:30:00 PM

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Failure to Discuss Healthcare Reform Was Purposeful Lapse
Medscape
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.26.2012

President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address included many important topics, but as far as physicians were concerned, he missed a key one: healthcare reform.
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California voters have a choice: taxes or education?
One News Now
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.17.2012

An education analyst says the governor of California is allowing voters to make the tough choices in light of the state's economic woes.
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Private schools make changes to stay afloat
The Orange County Register
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.13.2012

Private schools in Orange County are struggling to maintain and boost student enrollment in the down economy but are reporting that the steep enrollment slides they endured a few years ago are reversing as parents become increasingly frustrated by class sizes and budget cuts in public schools.
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Don't trust the locals yet
Sacramento Bee
By: Steven Greenhut
1.13.2012

California's redevelopment agencies were corrupt and had to go. But it's hardly obvious that re-empowering local officials with "new and improved" economic development authority is a wise idea.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/11/4178469/what-should-be-the-future-of-redevelopment.html#storylink=cpy

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Voters wary of teacher unions
The Orange County Register
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.28.2011

Californians are a little schizophrenic on how they look on the state's public schools, based on the findings of a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll of registered voters.
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Education activist urges online learning at Pleasant Hill luncheon
Contra Costa Times
10.3.2011

Charter schools and online learning could help turn around underperforming campuses such as Clayton Valley High School in Concord, an education reform advocate said Friday. Lance Izumi, who is an author and senior director for education at the Pacific Research Institute public policy think tank, said many school districts throughout the state and country are failing to adequately prepare students to be competitive with students around the world.


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Taxpayers Pick Up NYC's $6B Lawsuits Bill
NBC New York
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
8.22.2011

New York City doled out an astounding $6 billion in judgments and settlements in 10 years, some for bizarre claims of injury resulting from biting in a kindergarten classroom, tripping in a Lincoln Center parking lot, and slipping on bus steps, according to the New York Post.
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Best/Worst States for Business
ChiefExecutive.net
5.3.2011

More than 500 CEOs considered a wide range of criteria, from taxation and regulation to workforce quality and living environment, in our annual ranking of the best states for business.
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Death Trap Democrats
The American Spectator
By: Peter Ferrara
4.13.2011

As Sally Pipes explained in an excellent March 24 Washington Post commentary, "Massachusetts is the blueprint for Obamacare, and [Governor Deval] Patrick is among those who want his state's plan to serve as a national model." Yet, "almost five years into his state's Romneycare plan, it turns out that spending is out of control, threatening public-sector budgets and private-sector wealth generation."
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BOOK REVIEW: How to dismantle Obamacare
Washington Times
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.12.2011

"ObamaCare is wrong for families, wrong for patients, wrong for business, and wrong for our children's futures." That's the thesis, laid out on the first page of the must-read "Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America," a powerful book co-written by four battle-tested veterans of Washington's health policy battles.
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