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Wilson and Davis are Right
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.16.2006
Last month, Republican former governor Pete Wilson and Democratic former governor Gray Davis issued a joint letter urging Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators not to tinker with California's rigorous K-12 academic content standards. These standards are now under attack by liberal lawmakers, but recent research shows that effectively implementing the state standards in the classroom is a key component in raising student achievement.
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California's Education Enron
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.9.2006
SACRAMENTO, CA - The audit committee of the California Legislature is expected to order a probe of recent allegations that the California State University, while cutting budgets and raising student fees, has been
shoveling money to executives no longer officially on the payroll for what one legislator describes as "no discernable work."
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The Wearing of the Green
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
8.8.2006
The word is that green, though not "in" for years, will be a major color for this fall's fashion scene. This calls for another look at Vanity Fair's "Special Green Issue," now that the reviews are in.
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Supreme Court wetland ruling a heads-up to lawmakers
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
8.3.2006
Last month the United States Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision on a pair of cases involving the authority of the federal government to regulate wetlands. Some see the decision as an assault on the Clean Water Act but others regard it as a necessary check on expanding federal reach.
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Taming the Medicaid Monster: The President Pushes Progress but States Shirk Solutions
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: John R. Graham
8.1.2006
Medicaid maintains a deeply rooted, perverse incentive that all but guarantees unaccountable spending growth by state politicians. President Bush continues to offer states more freedom to improve Medicaid via the Deficit Reduction Act and provisions in his 2007 budget. Most states politicians are not engaging this opportunity, preferring simply to complain about the federal government’s demands for Medicaid accountability.
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