March, 2011 - Independence Institute

GOOD News: Douglas County Adopts Groundbreaking Pilot Voucher Program 0
- March 18, 2011
What a week for parental choice and school reform in Colorado. As reported at Ed Is Watching, the Board of Education for Colorado’s third largest school district voted unanimously on Tuesday, March 15, to enact a first-of-its-kind Choice Scholars…
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How Medicaid Harms the Poor 0
- March 18, 2011
“Despite the fact that the [researchers] controlled for age, gender, income, geographic region, operation, and 30 comorbid conditions, Medicaid fared poorly compared to those with private insurance, Medicare, and even the uninsured.”
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Douglas County School Board Enacts Pilot Voucher Program 0
- March 17, 2011
On March 15, 2011, the Douglas County Board of Education made history by voting 7-0 to enact a local pilot “choice scholarship” program. The Education Policy Center’s Pam Benigno and Ben DeGrow, who both served on Douglas County’s School Choice Task Force, discuss the significance of Colorado’s third-largest school district approving vouchers, as well as key program details concerning student eligibility, private school requirements, and funding.
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Florida, Gov. Rick Scott Close to Raising Bar on Teacher Tenure, Evaluation Reform 0
- March 17, 2011
You may have missed it because you were recovering from the New Year’s holiday, but I told you a couple months ago how Florida’s new governor Rick Scott was considering some pretty bold education reforms. The first two points of consideration I listed were:

Following Colorado’s lead by tying a significant portion of teacher evaluations to […]
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Governors Implementing ObamaCare Are Undermining the Lawsuits 0
- March 17, 2011
It would have been better if [Federal Judge] Vinson had stuck to his original order blocking implementation [of ObamaCare]. Yet he made clear that one of the reasons he did not is that many of the states asking him to strike down the law are implementing it anyway.
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Antiplanner’s Library: Triumph of the Cities 0
- March 17, 2011
The ideas of many urbanologists are heavily influenced by the cities in which they lived or grew up. To defend her mid-rise Greenwich Village neighborhood from “urban renewal,” Jane Jacobs extolled the virtues of such neighborhoods and excoriated both high-rises and suburbs. Many urban planners today, fresh out of college, remember the lively streets of […]
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