Education Reform
Kids deserve a top-notch education tailored to their needs. That’s why the Goldwater Institute helped make Arizona the leading state for education choice. In 2010, five Goldwater reforms became law, including education accounts for special-needs students, a school-performance rating system, ending of social promotion, expansion of charter schools, and new certification requirements so that experts in math, science, and other areas can teach their subjects without a teaching certificate from a college of education.
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Study on McKay Vouchers Lends Support to Goldwater Reform Plan
Posted on June 11, 2003 | Type: Press ReleasePHOENIX-In a study released today, Manhattan Institute scholars Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster find that Florida's McKay Scholarship Program has overwhelming support among parents of the special education children who receive vouchers through the program. The study's findings lend support to a Goldwater Institute proposal to use special education vouchers to combat pervasive racial bias by Arizona public school districts in the labeling of children as "learning disabled."
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Arizona 45th for Child Well-Being
Posted on June 11, 2003 | Type: In the NewsArizona's children are more likely to drop out of school, become pregnant as teenagers and live in poverty than children in most other states, according to a national report released Tuesday.
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Rescue Through Research an Economic Fantasy
Posted on June 09, 2003 | Type: Op-Ed | Author: Vicki AlgerCall it the Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: a lonely schoolgirl raised on Disney movies dreams of a knight in shining armor who will enter her life in a dashing whirl and save her from boredom, poverty and solitude. For schoolgirls, it's a harmless fantasy. But when Arizona policymakers begin dreaming that a knight in biotech armor will save the state economy, the fantasy may be very costly.
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Dropping a Budget-buster: Lavish University Research Plan Will Heavily Burden Arizona Taxpayers
Posted on May 18, 2003 | Type: In the NewsUniversity research funding is a direct assault on the General Fund, which cannot sustain the current budget proposal or future commitments already placed on it. The Legislature wants to borrow $440 million (with interest and principal it is $831 million). This requires the General Fund to pay the bonds off at $34 million annually for 24 years.
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Potent Investment at ASU, or Just a Lot of Bull?
Posted on May 16, 2003 | Type: In the News | Author: Ross GroenWhen I saw House Speaker Jake Flake at a barbeque the other day, I asked him why he was supporting the Legislature's bid to spend $800 million on research labs at Arizona universities. He told me what any rancher knows: to get growth, you have to put a bull in the pen with the cows.
