Court: Teachers Union in Poudre Puffs Bacon’s Election
According to the court, the facts from Fort Collins show the teachers union crossed the legal line in its 2004 campaign activities.
School Choice Presses Forward Across the Country
Members of the U.S. Congress join the Secretary of Education in proposing new school choice relief.
Breaking Ranks
House Bill 06-1145, signed into law in May, creates a State Methamphetamine Task Force in Colorado that has as part of its mission “to examine the prevention, intervention, and treatment of the abuse of methamphetamine.”
This would be a radical departure from the traditional drug war orthodoxy of trying to arrest and incarcerate away the drug issue. Unfortunately, Colorado’s continued obedience to federal drug-war priorities means that fresh thinking on methamphetamine will continue to take a backseat to the national obsession with marijuana prohibition.
New Jersey Parents File Class-Action Lawsuit for Option to Place Students in Higher-Performing Public and Nonpublic Schools
In a landmark case, a number of New Jersey alliances files a class action lawsuit seeking relief for New Jersey’s failure to provide basic education to thousands of its children.
"Smart Growth" Makes Housing Unaffordable
Smart-growth planning and other land-use restrictions create artificial housing shortages that dramatically reduce housing affordability. Penalties from planning cost Colorado homebuyers $4 billion in 2005, which is far more than any possible benefits from such planning. Local officials should remover barriers to housing construction and find better ways to attain the benefits smart growth is supposed to produce.
