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The Black and Hispanic Graduation Problem
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.30.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell and state education officials are wiping egg off their faces. O'Connell's Department of Education has claimed that 87 percent of California high school students graduated in 2002. A recent Harvard study, however, finds that only 71 percent of California high schoolers graduated in that year. It also reports that only about six out of 10 black and Hispanic high-school students received their diploma
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Free Broadband? Metro Mistake
ePolicy
3.25.2005
Following a trend burning across the nation, San Francisco's Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently approved $300,000 for a feasibility study on whether the city should add broadband to its utility services. This move toward government-run communications systems is dangerous for a number of reasons.
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A New Tax on Bicycles?
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
3.23.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - As Earth Day approaches and gasoline prices rise, one legislator seems determined to make environmentally friendly transportation more costly for Californians.
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Death, Disability, and Deception
Capital Ideas
By: Anthony P. Archie
3.16.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Recent hearings on Governor Schwarzenegger's pension proposal have centered on the claim that death and disability benefits will be eliminated under the plan. Pensioners should beware that death and disability benefits aren't going anywhere.
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The CTA Goes Radioactive
Capital Ideas
By: Xiaochin Claire Yan
3.10.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - The 335,000-member California Teachers Association (CTA), the state's most powerful union, is airing radio spots claiming that Governor Schwarzenegger wants to "stiff our kids for $2 billion
every year!'' Does he?
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There's No Glass Floor
3.7.2005
When Carly Fiorina was recently terminated as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, the world's second-largest computer company, it renewed charges that a glass ceiling and gender gap keep women down. That is a strange response to this case, and more evidence that gender nonsense still holds sway.
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Are Unions a "Special Interest?"
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
3.2.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Union boss Miguel Contreras, secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, recently said that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has "the audacity to call organizations that represent working people special interests." The latest figures on union membership cast that statement in a special light.
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Air Quality False Alarm: An Analysis of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Heat Advisory Report
PRI Study
3.1.2005
Heat Advisory, a recent report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), claims that increased temperatures resulting from global warming will cause higher ozone smog levels and therefore harm Americans’ health. In other words, in addition to other harms, NRDC claims global warming will cause future air pollution to be worse than current air pollution levels. For example, NRDC asserts that the number of days per year exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 8-hour ozone standard will increase by an average of 60 percent in America’s metropolitan areas.
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