Debate Intensifies Over Alleged Profit Motive in Public Education

By Kevin Mooney
10/19/2011
Are business interests plotting to take over the public education system and turn a profit at the expense of the public? That is the charge leading figures within the Coalition for Public Education have aimed against Gov. Bobby Jindal and the school board candidates who favor charter schools.

TAGS: BESE, Charter Schools, Coalition for Public Education, election, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, Recovery School District, school board, Teach for America

Commentary: Public Education Bureaucracy Fails Students Again

By Jamison Beuerman
03/02/2010
A disturbing report in the Washington Examiner disclosed that, since August 2007, a dozen Washington, D.C. public school teachers have been fired for a litany of nausea-inducing incidents including corporal punishment, physical abuse, threats of bodily harm, and even sexual abuse. As if this behavior is not sickening enough, even more distressing is that there...

TAGS: Charter Schools, Teach for America, Teach Nola

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A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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