Commentaries

California’s Regulatory Climate Is Crushing Transportation Innovation

Onerous regulations on ride-booking, private buses and self-driving vehicles hurt drivers and stifle economy

By Baruch Feigenbaum
July 27, 2015

California Is the Wrong Energy Model for the Nation and World

The state's policies have raised energy prices and unemployment, yet offer no climate benefits

By Tom Tanton
July 27, 2015

Proposed Pension Initiative Threatens the California Rule

By Adam Crepelle
July 22, 2015

Academic Outcomes are Key for Investors of Charter School Facilities Bonds

By Aaron Garth Smith
July 22, 2015

Home-Schooling on the Rise as Alternative to Underperforming Public Schools

California affords home-schooling parents considerable freedom to provide customized educations for their kids

By Aaron Garth Smith
July 21, 2015

Public-Private Partnership Advocates and Trucking Industry Find Common Ground

American Trucking Associations support users-pay principle, seem open to tolling and P3 concessions

By Robert Poole
July 9, 2015

Let Uber and Taxis Compete

Research shows taxi regulations do much more harm than good

By Adrian Moore
July 9, 2015

Ohio Governor’s Controversial Funding Vetoes Benefit Low-Capacity School Districts

By Savannah Robinson
July 9, 2015

Funding Portability Is Key to Education Reform

Allowing Title I dollars to follow individual students to the private or public school of their choice would increase funding equality

By Tyler Koteskey
July 9, 2015

Los Angeles Unified: Case in Point for Why Weighted Student Formula at the District Level is Not Enough

By Lisa Snell
July 7, 2015

Pennsylvania Should Address School Funding Inequities with Urgency

By Aaron Garth Smith
July 7, 2015

New Jersey Residents Will Get Fewer Services as Public Pension Costs Skyrocket

Without pension reform, the Garden State will feel like a bankrupt city

By Leonard Gilroy
July 7, 2015

How Student-Based Budgeting Could Help Rescue Detroit’s Public Schools

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's plan to get Detroit's schools out of debt should utilize backpack funding

By Tyler Koteskey
July 2, 2015

Where Transit Could be Self-Supporting and How Politicians Ensure That it is not

By Baruch Feigenbaum
June 30, 2015

Charitable Giving Does Not Close Charter School Funding Gaps

By Savannah Robinson
June 29, 2015

No simple answers on affordable housing

By Adrian Moore
June 27, 2015

S&P State Pension Review

By Truong Bui
June 25, 2015

Mileage Based User Fees are the Most Realistic Long-Term Funding Mechanism

By Baruch Feigenbaum and Carol Park
June 22, 2015