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Restore Worker Freedom in America
Capital Ideas
By: Anthony Archie
8.31.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - More than 84 percent of Americans believe that workers should have the freedom to negotiate wages and working conditions with employers, according to a recent poll by the Marketing Research Institute. If this is true, then it's time to end exclusive union representation in the workplace.
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Smart Woman on Smart Women
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
8.19.2005
Parade magazine, which usually arrives with the Sunday
paper, is not exactly the Atlantic Monthly but occasionally
tackles a thorny issue such as "Are men smarter than women?"
To render a judgment, Parade commissioned a very smart woman
indeed.
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Nursing Student Dissects Admissions
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.17.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - To address California's nursing shortage, the new 2005-06 state budget includes $10 million to increase enrollment at community college nursing programs. These added tax dollars, however, fail to address the counterproductive lottery admissions system used by many of the programs. Consider the views of a recent graduate from a community college nursing program in Northern California.
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Big Brother Just Got Bigger in California
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
8.10.2005
CAMBRIA, CA - Life on the central coast lives up to the clichés of Lotus-land loopiness, starting with the story in
the paper this week about a couple who planned a sunset wedding out at the beach, except that the minister who was planning to perform the ceremony failed to show up. No problem: This is California.
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California's Budget Shell Game
By: Anthony P. Archie
8.3.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Buried within Proposition 76, the "Live Within Our Means'' budget reform initiative, is a provision that would prohibit the borrowing of special fund dollars to cover General Fund shortfalls. With this common-sense proposal, state lawmakers would no longer be able to balance budgets by raiding funds earmarked for infrastructure investment, a common practice here. Take, for example, the raids on transportation funds over the past three years.
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Free to Learn: Lessons from Model Charter Schools
Education Study
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Xiaochin C. Yan
8.1.2005
Charter schools, unlike traditional public schools, must demonstrate that they can meet the bottom line – student performance. To reach this goal, they must adopt practices that are proven to work, unlike their standard public school counterparts. As a result, they are making tremendous strides in boosting student achievement, and often in low-income communities where most of the other district schools are failing.
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