Democrats in Congress likely to shut down D.C. school voucher program
Milton Friedman, who developed the idea for school vouchers and who would have turned 95 on Tuesday, would be disappointed with the following news story from the Washington Times, which […]
Read More →Ellsworth American: University System Needs Overhaul
The Ellsworth American, just about the only newspaper in the state interested in smaller government, had this to say in an editorial today on the University of Maine system: “There […]
Read More →Small Schools Face Extinction as State Pushes Consolidation
According to the Lincoln County News, many small schools and small school districts are coming to realize that the ultimate result of school district consolidation will indeed be the closure […]
Read More →Jeb Bush – The Education Governor
The most recent issue of Education Next, a publication of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, features an extensive interview with former Florida governor Jeb Bush, soon to be visiting […]
Read More →State, university salary study likely
See what happens when some actual reporting is done by one of the state’s newspapers? An article in Saturday’s Bangor Daily contained a fascinating list of the hundreds of state […]
Read More →Op-ed on Consolidation in today’s KJ
Competing consolidation plans? No problem. Consolidate them. Stephen L. Bowen Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel Thursday, May 10, 2007 Time is running out for the Legislature to develop a broadly […]
Read More →Your tax dollars at work…
In my most recent column in the Rockland Courier Gazette, I discuss news from Augusta that Maine DOT spent $625,000 of your tax dollars on a restroom: Flushing taxpayer dollars […]
Read More →BDN Op-Ed: Still time for compromise on education reform
Stephen L. Bowen: Still time for compromise on education reform Bangor Daily News, March 21, 2007 It is said that the sign of a good compromise is that all the […]
Read More →MHPC Schools Report Getting Editorial Support
The Ellsworth American came out strongly in favor of the MHPC school district consolidation compromise plan, outlined in our most recent “Maine View” According to the American: “Of the proposals […]
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