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Unschooling and School Choice: A Complicated Relationship
The evidence is largely on the side of freedom in education. And adding unschooling to the set of educational options available to families increases that freedom.
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States Should Consider Converting Carpool Lanes Into Toll Lanes
Variable-priced tolling provides needed transportation revenue to build, maintain and operate the lanes.
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Yet Another Study Shows School Choice Programs Reduce Crime
The evidence shows school choice does more to cut crime than residentially-assigned public schools.
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Albany’s Proposed Flavored Tobacco Ban Misses the Mark
There's no reason why one of the safest and most popular alternatives to smoking can't be kept on the market for adults but kept out of the hands of kids.
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Michigan’s Marijuana Regulators Are Running Ahead of Schedule
Michigan is also pioneering a new data-sharing platform to allow banks and credit unions to perform enhanced due diligence on marijuana businesses that apply for accounts with them.
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In Colorado, and Other States, Legalizing Drug Checking Kits Would Save Lives
Drug checking kits can help drug users avoid taking street drugs laced with more dangerous drugs.
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Examining the Good and Bad in Oregon’s Patchwork Reforms to State Pensions
While the changes should help reduce costs to employers in the short-term, they come at the price of higher overall costs in the long-term.
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New Mexico Holds Public Hearings to Gauge Remedies for Persistent Public Pension Woes
Tackling public pension problems sooner than later will make a difference.
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California’s Proposed Opioid Tax Would Hurt Patients
Cancer patients, wounded veterans, and many others suffering from incurable pain would consistently be paying the state’s opioid tax.
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San Francisco Protects Cigarettes To Own The Vapers
In San Francisco, vaping is public enemy number one.
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Dear Fellow Health Plan Members And Medical Patients, I’m Sorry
Incentive problems plague the health care system. Market-based reforms are needed.
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To Ensure Equitable Funding for Low-Income Students, Fixing Title I Isn’t Good Enough — It Needs to Be Rebuilt From Scratch
Title I developed a dizzyingly complex funding mechanism that poses serious equity concerns for America’s poor children.
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Why States With Legalized Marijuana Should Allow Marijuana Lounges
There is an increasing need and consumer demand for lounges where marijuana products can be consumed.
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Paying More Attention to Where and How Education Funding Is Spent
The achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged U.S. students has remained unchanged for nearly 50 years.
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California Can Improve the Effectiveness of its Education Spending
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget plan now calls for $101.8 billion in education spending.
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What If Vouchers Came With More Freedom for Public School Leaders? Our Research Shows They Still Wouldn’t Go Along
Although there may be merit in such policy, deregulating public schools will not increase their leaders’ support for private school vouchers in California.
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The Debate Over Pension Debt and Government Spending in Kansas
KPERS may be substantially overestimating the value of its assets and underestimating its current pension debt.
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Sweeney Proposal Would Help Secure New Jersey Pensions
Despite criticism from some unions, the reform proposal would ensure that retirement promises made to public workers are kept.
