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Union Bill a Bad Bargain for California Schools
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.29.2002
California’s most powerful special interest lobby, the California Teachers Association (CTA), is pushing legislation, AB 2160, that will expand collective bargaining to give teacher unions power over curriculum, textbooks and academic standards. A new study by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), however, shows that the unions have used collective bargaining to neuter the authority of local school boards, protect bad teachers, restrict principals, force non-union teachers to pay union fees, and damage student achievement.
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Walzer’s Razor
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
3.22.2002
Fifty years ago a few of the leading intellectuals on the left, such as Lionel Trilling and Dwight MacDonald, began to perceive growing weaknesses in the dominant liberal ideology of the time, and began to look hopefully for the emergence of a reasonable, responsible conservatism. Today, the shoe is on the other foot, as conservatives wonder whether a reasonable, responsible left is possible.
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Reality Check on ID Theft
ePolicy
3.21.2002
Identity theft is a serious concern, but despite calls from regulation advocates, new privacy laws are not the answer to this insidious crime. As a new report shows, consumer awareness and better enforcement of existing laws are the ways to solve this problem.
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What digital divide?
ePolicy
3.13.2002
A new report from the Department of Commerce brings good news to most Americans and serves as a wake-up call for those who believe the digital divide is the civil liberties issue of the 21st century.
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Why Women Should Ignore the United Nations
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.8.2002
The United Nations (U.N.) Commission on the Status of Women is meeting in New York City, but there is no reason that women should take interest in the event. The status of women, after all, is better than ever, without help from the United Nations.
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Education Issues for the 2002 Campaign
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.6.2002
While the state budget deficit, the electricity crisis aftermath, and the slow economy will be important topics for the upcoming general election campaign, education issues will still share center stage. Consider, for example, the possibility that the state Board of Education could undermine Proposition 227, the successful 1998 anti-bilingual-education initiative that required English immersion for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students.
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Daschle and Democrats Play Prevent Defense
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Chris Middleton
3.1.2002
While millions of Americans lose their health-care coverage, Senator Tom Daschle has taken a defiant stance in order to prevent the enactment of tax credits for individuals who purchase their own health insurance.
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Contract for Failure: The Impact of Teacher Union Contracts on the Quality of California Schools
PRI Study
By: Pamela A. Riley, Rosemarie Fusano, Larae Munk, Ruben Peterson
3.1.2002
“Thus far, the leading writers of the current school reform movement have shirked from a critical examination of teachers’ unions and collective bargaining,” wrote Todd A. DeMitchell and Richard Fossey in their 1997 book The Limits of Law-Based School Reform. “With very few exceptions, one will search in vain in the school reform literature for even the appearance of the word union.”
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Women and Entrepreneurship in California: Obstacles, Incentives and Reforms
PRI Publication
By: Donna G. Matias
3.1.2002
Back in 1928, the author George Bernard Shaw published a handbook for a citizen who had, just recently, gained the right to vote in America—the little housewife. The book’s title was The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, and it tilted heavily toward the socialist side. Shaw’s political framework now seems antiquated—his aim was to “make Socialism the established constitutional order.” But what strikes the modern reader most is not Shaw’s politics but his condescending tone.
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