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Stakeout
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
12.29.1999
"Our intention is to drive a stake through the heart of the culture that produced these results," said Howard Miller, chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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Santa Claus and Social Security
Action Alerts
By: Naomi Lopez
12.21.1999
"Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. Social Security. It’s Time for E*Trade." This San Francisco billboard message amused me because, like so many in my generation, I outgrew fairy tales, fantasy, and paternalistic government programs long ago.
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Social Promotion Is Alive and Well
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
12.16.1999
For years, critics of public education have complained about the phenomenon of social promotion. Under this dysfunctional policy, students are advanced to the next grade level even though they have clearly failed to master the subject matter in their current grade. In 1998, California enacted a law to eliminate this practice, but so far the law seems to have been wholly ineffective.
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Beware the New Federal Land Use Statistics
Action Alerts
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
12.13.1999
The summary of the new 1997 National Resources Inventory (NRI) is just out from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It concludes that the rate of land being urbanized in the U.S. has increased rapidly in the 1990s, to more than three million acres a year, and is providing fresh fuel for those who see urban sprawl as a crisis requiring significant new land regulation.
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Down with the Gang of Five
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
12.9.1999
"You are all individuals, and I like that in a person," a guitarist told the crowd at a Sacramento establishment. Those who laughed at the line were unaware that it contradicted government policy on the 2000 Census, which emphatically declares that we are not all individuals.
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Making School Choice Work for All Families
Policy Report
By: John E. Coons, Stephen D. Sugarman
12.1.1999
Making School Choice Work for All Families is the one of a three-part series, Templates for Legislative and Policy Reform. The other two templates address the issues of academic standards and charter schools. The series recommends best practices and legislative language and highlights problem areas that arise when policy deviates from those best practices.
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“Reformed” Encryption Policies Still Threaten Privacy and the Economy
ePolicy
By: Justin Matlick
12.1.1999
On December 15, part one of the Clinton administration's new encryption policy will take effect. This flawed approach will continue harming technology companies while placing Americans' privacy at risk. Congress should now take matters into its own hands by enacting more sensible reforms
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