One D.C. Voucher Mom’s Story Should Help Shame Congress Back into Action
Anybody who reads this blog knows I have a big soft spot for the kids in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — you know, the one axed by the Obama administration. Just type “D.C. voucher” or “D.C. school choice” in the search box on the right sidebar to see what I mean.
So it’s no […]
Did the PUC Call Xcel’s Bluff on HB 1365?
The PUC finally issued a written ruling addressing appeals to its December decision on a HB 1365 implementation plan. As I noted here, virtually every stakeholder had requested a rehearing. The PUC issued an oral ruling on January 26, but I didn’t listen to it at the time, and media reports covered only the PUC’s […]
Colorado Senate Bill 11-019 lifts insurance restrictions on small employers
Colorado Senate Bill 19 would lift restrictions on small business that forbid them from using “Health Reimbursement Accounts” for buying medical insurance with pre-tax dollars.
Are Earmarks Dead?
Congressional leaders have promised a two-year moratorium on earmarks. Some in Congress are even trying to get the money back for orphaned earmarks, i.e., earmarks that have not yet been spent. There are usually lots of orphaned transportation projects because the states are not really interested in doing earmarks that override their own priorities. It […]
Let Title I Money Follow the Child and Other Creative School Choice Ideas
You think school choice just means a state voucher program or public charter schools? Think again. We are living in an age of all kinds of creative school choice ideas. There’s vouchers in Douglas County, education savings accounts and even “school passports.” Writing on the National Journal’s Education Experts blog, Colorado’s own State Board of Education chairman Bob Schaffer offers up another idea for a school choice initiative using federal dollars but crafted at the state level.
Aetna leaves Colorado’s individual insurance market
Aetna has stopped selling individual health insurance policies in Colorado. The Wall Street Journal interviews an analyst who suggests the ObamaCare’s medical-loss ratio rules “likely triggered Aetna’s decision to quit Colorado.”
Have an Opinion? You’re Violating the Law!
A group of neighbors asked state highway officials to install traffic signals on a road near their Raleigh, North Carolina suburb. They buttressed their request with an eight-page analysis of the highway complete with maps and traffic projections. View Larger Map The state was so impressed that it agreed to install the traffic signals, right? […]
How Can Congress Spend All that Money? – Part I
[For more info on this topic, see Rob’s book, The Original Constitution, or listen to the interview, What in the Constitution Gives Authority to Congress to Spend Our Money? part 1] How can a government that supposedly is one of enumerated powers spend trillions of dollars on everything from semi-porn art exhibits to bridges that […]
Your Chance to Say “Yes” to Falcon 49’s Bold, Cost-Saving Innovation Plan
Colorado Springs Gazette editor Wayne Laugesen posted a great piece last night urging citizens to give District 49 leadership a chance with its bold plan that favors students over bureaucrats:
The school board has decided the large district will go forward without a superintendent — an experiment educators are sure to watch throughout the United States. […]
Congestion Coalition Wins in Virginia
The urban mobility discussed here yesterday found that the Washington DC urban area has the fourth-worst congestion in the nation, costing more than $4 billion a year. That congestion will continue to get worse thanks to the efforts of anti-highway groups who appear to have successfully stopped the construction of high-occupancy/toll (HOT) lanes along I-395. […]
Good News: Falcon 49 Moves Forward with Bold Innovation
Plenty of GOOD news in Colorado education reform these days comes from local innovation. Recently it was the 60,000-student Douglas County School District taking a stand for increased parental choice. Now it’s the 15,000-student Falcon School Dis…
New Education Honorees: Colorado Superheroes & a Ladner-Burke Bunkum
February is a big month for awards. There’s the Oscars for movies and the Grammys for popular music. Before both of them comes the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winner of the most-watched sporting event: the Super Bowl. So I thought today would be a great opportunity to highlight a couple of freshly-announced education-related awards.
First […]
