Goldwater Institute

Up to 1,500 low-income children may receive scholarships to private schools, thanks to the new corporate tuition tax credit.

The Republican Party continues to abandon small-government conservatism at its peril

If Republican leaders force Gov. Janet Napolitano to blink and sign a state budget that doesn't include her top spending wishes, it won't be because the state lacks the money.

PHOENIX-A new report by renowned urban development expert Joel Kotkin shows Phoenix's multi-centric growth has made it a national leader by almost all measures of economic strength. In population growth, job growth, quality of jobs, cost of living, average wages, income growth, and presence of high-tech companies, the Phoenix region is excelling and performing far better than cities traditionally thought to be exemplars of urban development. For instance, after adjusting for cost of living, Phoenix's 2003 average wage was 5.1 percent higher than Boston's, 28.9 percent higher than San Diego's, and 33.5 percent higher than San Francisco's.

Gov. Janet Napolitano is championing a plan for state-run, full-day kindergarten. On its heels, she is advancing state-supported preschool. The ultimate goal, as she told the National Task Force on Public Education, is to make preschool "a lockstep component of public schooling."