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Not Everyone Agrees With Choice
Read more: Not Everyone Agrees With ChoiceRecently I wrote about the case of a young girl who is homeschooled, one who gives me hope in the future of youth. (See A Declaration of Independence from Public Schools.) There are people, however, who would deny talented and dedicated young people like Mary the opportunity to be educated in the way their parents…
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A declaration of independence from public schools
Read more: A declaration of independence from public schoolsMary Moberly, a young woman just 15 years old, wrote this piece. She lives in Manhattan, Kansas. I have been reading her two websites for the past few months, ever since I saw that she referred to a post on this website. If you look at her two websites, Tea and Crumpets Zine and Just…
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State of Kansas vs. Students
Read more: State of Kansas vs. StudentsTaxpayers have had to pay over millions to fund both the school districts suing the state for additional state spending, for the state’s defense of this lawsuit, and this does not include the costs for the judicial system. Instead of chasing ambulances it has now become much more remunerative for lawyers in Kansas to chase…
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Economics In One Lesson, 50th Anniversary Edition
Read more: Economics In One Lesson, 50th Anniversary EditionThis book, first published in 1946, explains common fallacies (a false or mistaken idea) that are particularly common in the field of economics and public policy.
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Judicial Reform in Kansas on Hold
Read more: Judicial Reform in Kansas on HoldThank you to Alan Cobb of Americans For Prosperity, Kansas for this report on this needed measure for judicial reform in Kansas. The current system of Kansas Supreme Court selection, the mis-named “merit system,” is a secretive, closed system dominated by lawyers. Kansas lawyers elect themselves to the Kansas Supreme Court selection board. There are…
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Report From the Kansas Statehouse, March 9, 2006
Read more: Report From the Kansas Statehouse, March 9, 2006Thank you to Karl Peterjohn, Kansas Taxpayers Network, for this report on happenings in Topeka. The Kansas senate surrendered their ability to rein the activist Sebelius and leftist dominated Kansas Supreme Court Thursday afternoon. A constitutional amendment to require senate confirmation of judges barely received a majority vote Thursday afternoon as a coalition of most…
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Eminent domain testimony
Read more: Eminent domain testimonyYou should not allow cities, counties and state agencies the power through eminent domain to force someone to involuntarily sell their home, their business, or their farm so they can give it to other private owners for their own private use. Under redevelopment law, city councils can essentially become the agent for the powerful, politically…
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School choice helps those best who have least
Read more: School choice helps those best who have leastAn article in the March 2, 2006 Wall Street Journal by Katherine Kersten of the Minneapolis Star Tribune tells of the large numbers of African-American families in Minneapolis who send their children to charter schools or to schools in other districts, thanks to Minnesota law that allows district-crossing.
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The descent of the good column
Read more: The descent of the good columnLast week I explained how a column in The Wichita Eagle (see How a Good Column on the Bad Lottery Fell Apart) started out well but took a sharp turn downwards.
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The wonderful and frightening uncertainty of competition
Read more: The wonderful and frightening uncertainty of competitionTake education. Bureaucrats like to say, you will go to this school, because we said so, and you will be taught according to this program, because we said so and we know best. Those of us with confidence in markets think you could do better deciding for yourself. Neither the bureaucrats nor the freedom lovers…
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Schoolchildren Will Be Basically Proficient
Read more: Schoolchildren Will Be Basically ProficientA few months ago I wrote how most states, when testing their schoolchildren, post results such as “80% of our state’s students are proficient in reading or math,” but when tested by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the number judged proficient falls to 30% or so. (See Every State Left Behind.) It was…
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How a good column on the bad lottery fell apart
Read more: How a good column on the bad lottery fell apartMr. Scholfield tells us how the lottery is not a very good bet. He references a survey that tells us how about half of us believe we have a better chance of obtaining a retirement nest egg through winning the lottery rather than by saving and investing. He then tells us that the large majority…