Saving Our Small Schools: Is Privatization an Option?
Read the full report | Maine’s small schools are in danger. Though legislators deliberating Governor Baldacci’s school system consolidation proposal could have found other ways to generate administrative savings within and […]
Read More →Affordability, Accessibility or Priority? Defining and Understanding Maine’s Uninsured
Read the full report | Today, the US Census Bureau released figures on the uninsured rate for Maine, the other states and the US as a whole for 2006. This […]
Read More →How Consolidation Threatens School Choice
Read the full report | What the people of Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburg, West Bath, and Woolwich are being encouraged to do would shock supporters of school choice across the nation, […]
Read More →The Sinclair Act at 50: What History Tells Us about the Consequences of Consolidation
Read the full report | How much of the following sounds familiar? Maine people were told by the “powers that be” that the state’s schools were too costly. The problem, […]
Read More →Governor Jeb Bush: A Record of Leadership and Policy Accomplishment
Read the full report | In his two terms as Florida’s 43rd governor, Jeb Bush challenged the status quo and reshaped state government in order to lead Florida, the nation’s […]
Read More →Maine’s “Town Tuitioning” Program, Milton Friedman’s School Choice Ideal?
Read the full report | Economist Milton Friedman first described his vision for a school voucher program in a 1955 essay titled The Role of Government in Education. Arguing that […]
Read More →Maine’s Near-Universal Coverage for Children Makes SCHIP Expansion Unnecessary
Read the full report | As Congress debates a dramatic expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Maine’s experience shows that SCHIP expansion is unnecessary, would dramatically raise […]
Read More →2007 Cost of Living Update: First Trimester
Read the full report | The ACCRA Cost of Living Index© (ACCRA-COLI) is the country’s longest running cost of living index, published every quarter since 1968. Used widely by both […]
Read More →Committee Tax Reform Plan not “Revenue Neutral”
Read the full report | The tax reform plan proposed by the Taxation Committee that is winding its way through the Maine Legislature is “revenue neutral” in Augusta, but it […]
Read More →Maine versus New Hampshire Factoid
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, if Maine were a county of New Hampshire, in 2005, it would have been the second poorest county. Coos county is the poorest […]
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