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Takings Initiatives Accountability Project: The Center for Public Integrity investigates ballot initiatives that would radically change land-use and environmental regulation in five Western states
The [non-partisan]Center for Public Integrity investigated 2006 "ballot initiatives that were designed to radically change land-use and environmental regulation in five Western states. They discovered that a trio of "secret donors" accounted for 99% of the propostions' bankrolls, and some of the initiatives did not comply with campaign-finance and other regulations. Then the Center revealed that 85 percent of the funding was coming from a single wealthy real estate investor and Libertarian activist, Howard RIch All but the Arizona inititative failed at the ballot. The Center for Public Integrity set up a stand-alone website-- www.takings initiatives.org-- and filed more than 50 articles on it. "Our general practice-- and a novel one as far as we can tell-- was to mount verbatim transcripts of the interviews on our website, including audio recordings where available. We sought to allow proponents, opponents funders and experts to have a chance to present their side of the story in their own words." The Center also checked with state and federal regulators for compliance of relevant laws and regulations.
Tags: Takings Initiatives; takings clause; ballot initiatives; land-use regulation; environmental regulation; tax-exempt organizations; Howard Rich; Andrea Millen Rich; Council for Responsible Government; William A. Wilson; state campaign-finance filings; public records requests; state freedom of information requests; America At Its Best; Americans for Limited Government; John Tillman; Howard Ahmanson; Fieldstead & Company; property rights; prefessional signature-gatherers; Colorado At Its Best; term limits; nonprofit advocacy organizations; Sam Adams Alliance; Sam Adams Foundation; Legislative Education Action Drive; Parents in Charge Foundation; Social Security Choice.org; Illinois Charitable Trust Bureau; educational vouchers; tuition tax credits; National Taxpayers Union; First Class Education; Susquehanna International Group; Jeffrey YAss; Cato Institute; Alliance for School Choice; Decision Education Foundation; Eric Brooks; Susan Mitchell; Pete Sepp; Kern Family Foundation; Generac Power Systems, Inc.; Milton Friedman; Taxpayer Bill of Rights; TABOR; Laird Maxwell; This House is MY Home; John Whitehead; Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; Exoxemis, Inc.; Family Farm Preservation Pact; Citizens for Community Protection; Kelo v. City of New London; eminent domain; New York Millionaires Assistance Act; Wallace Global Fund; Nicholas C. Dranias; PRNewswire; Eric O'Keefe; getliberty.com; George Soros
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Tax law little aid to poor students
Pennsylvania passed a law that is not for vouchers. But it's as close as it can be. The legislature approved the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program, "a more complicated means to the same end." "It encourages private businesses to donate their money to nonprofit groups often acting on behalf of private schools, which use the money to pay tuition for students to attend those schools." What do the businesses get out of the deal? Tax credits worth up to 90 cents on the dollar.
Tags: taxes; vouchers; Educational Improvement Tax Credit; money; schools
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Tax law little aid to poor students
The Morning Call examines the state's new Educational Improvement Tax Credit program. "Supporters pitched the program as a way for students to escape bad public schools. But a year later, there's no evidence that is happening," according an analysis done by the newspaper.
Tags: tax law; students; tax credits; education; Pennsylvania; state tax; Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program; vouchers
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The Voucher Vortex: Is School Choice a Panacea or a Peril?
David Glenn explains the difficulties in finding reliable information to judge the success of school voucher programs. Several reasons for this problem: lack of up-to-date, relevant data; quarrels among researchers studying the issue about how to interpret their information once they get it; and administrative roadblocks which have prevented large-scale studies of programs. "The best-designed voucher study ever has sparked a public quarrel among members of its research team," he writes.
Tags: education; public school; voucher; school choice; statistical analysis
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Whose Choice?
The Beacon Journal examines the issue of school choice by investigating the problems in Ohio's public and private academies. "Ohio, already No. 1 in the '90s for putting public dollars into private schools and last in the nation for placing children in safe and sanitary buildings, is on course to earn a new distinction in the next decade. The state is ready to rival Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan for funneling tax dollars to a new class of schools -- charter schools -- that are public in some ways and private in others." Among the topics the four-part series covers is school safety, the role of money and politics in schools and the problems with Ohio's school voucher system experiment.
Tags: education; Ohio; school choice; charter schools; private schools; public schools
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Obstacle Course
Once Ohio lawmakers passed voucher legislation for students in Cleveland, supporters believed the tough part was behind them. But those charged with implementing the program have found the going anything but easy.
Tags: Schools; Transportation; Social issues; Education
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Bob Smith saved an abandoned inner-city high school. Dropout rates fell, grades improved, more kids moved on to college-and then came the inquisition. The American Spectator investigates how the state of Wisconsin first encouraged principal Smith to apply for his school, Messmer High School, to participate in Milwaukee's school voucher system and then revoked the school's eligibility claiming the Messmer High School was a Catholic, religiously-affiliated school. (March 1996)
Tags: McGroarty Education Parent Choice Religion Separation of church and state 5 pgs.
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For all the debate over school choice, Milwaukee remains the one U.S. city where vouchers have progressed from rhetoric to reality. In this article the American Enterprise looks at the failure of the American desegregation program and inner-city African-Americans' fight for private school choice in Milwaukee. (Sept. - Oct. 1996)