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Giving Failure a Pass
Capital Ideas
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
5.27.2009
SACRAMENTO – The Los Angeles Unified School District, the largest in California, spends $10 million a year to “house,” with full pay and benefits, about 160 teachers deemed unsuitable for the classroom, according to “Failure Gets a Pass,” a recent series in the Los Angeles Times.
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One Last Hope for DC Voucher Program
Capital Ideas
By: Rachel Chaney
5.20.2009
In early May, President Obama presented a revised 2010 budget that included $12.2 million for the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. The proposal represented a “compromise” solution to DC’s embattled voucher program, but is hardly a gain for low-income students and their parents.
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How Government Botches Biofuels
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
5.19.2009
Within the last five years, concern over both global climate change and the economic and national security implications of U.S. oil consumption has created an interest in alternate sources of liquid fuel, namely, “biofuels” derived from agricultural crops. What began as an exciting possibility has unfortunately become an example of how well-intentioned but ill-conceived policy can stand in the way of other, perhaps better, ideas.
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Nanny Government Plays from the Rough
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.5.2009
As readers of the Contrarian know from the recent piece on Billie Jean King, my game is tennis. I’m not much of a golfer, but I can recognize a wild tee shot that lands deep in the rough. That is especially true when the shot comes from a politically correct politician aiming to protect women.
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