Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner should be commended for standing up to bullying from U.S. Justice Department and working to ensure the integrity of the state’s voter registration list. Election officials have an absolute duty and obligation to remove noncitizens from voter rolls. The Justice Department’s claim that this violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA)…
Yesterday the Department of Justice filed suit in federal court against Florida. It alleges only that Florida has violated Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, by attempting to purge non-citizens from its voter rolls within the 90-day period before an election for federal office. This marks a significant shift in DOJ’s claims: It had earlier alleged…
Abstract: During its five years of operations, Florida’s Medicaid Reform Pilot has been a decided success. It has improved the health of enrolled patients, achieved high patient satisfaction, and kept cost increases below average, saving Florida up to $161 million annually. Since then, Florida has passed its Statewide Reform, which promises to extend these benefits…
Revised and updated October 4, 2010. Abstract: An education gap between white students and their black and Hispanic peers is something to which most Americans have become accustomed. But this racial division of education—and hence of prospects for the future— is nothing less than tragic. The good news is that the racial divide in learning is a problem…
Abstract: Unions have been a familiar part of American working life for more than 70 years. Less familiar is the state of the union movement today: More union members now work for the government than for private employers. The above-market salaries and benefits that government employees receive are paid for by taxpayers. So, the union movement that began as a campaign to…
This week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) and the House leadership are working feverishly to enact H.R. 3590, the highly unpopular Senate health bill. It includes new middle-class taxes and government spending, bunches of federal boards and bureaucracies, mandates and penalties, an entitlement expansion, and unprecedented taxpayer funding of abortion. It is also…
Israel Ortega commenting on the political fallout from the Supreme Court's ruling on the New Haven firefighters case.…
The District of Columbia is home to one of the nation's most troubled public school systems. The District spends $14,400 for every child in public school—well above the national average and more than any of the 50 states.[1] The 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported that Washington, D.C.'s fourth and eighth graders scored lower than any other…
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: State Supreme Court Decision Threatens Florida School Choice Revolution January 5, 2006 While they attended class this morning, 30,000 Florida students may have had their educational futures dashed by a ruling from the state's Supreme Court. In a 5-2 decision, the court rejected the judgment of elected policymakers and ruled that the…
Introduction In his first State of the Union Address, George Bush this January set six goals to strengthen American education. One of them is to reduce the national high school dropout rate to 10 percent by the end of the decade. Currently, according to Bush, the rate is 25 percent. This high rate, it is said, saddles the United States with an undereducated…
Sixteen-year-old Kiera Wilmot, described by her principal as “a good kid,” had good grades and had never been in...…
Obamacare is "working fine," President Obama said yesterday in his press conference. It's made health insurance...…
As action to stop Obamacare languishes in Washington, the debate continues at the state level. Heritage is hosting a...…
The Medicaid expansion is touted by proponents of Obamacare as a "no-brainer." While it is true that some states may see...…
Months since the Supreme Court ruling that made the Obamacare Medicaid expansion optional, the state costs associated...…
Whatever the outcome of today’s elections, Americans can be sure of nonstop electoral analysis and number crunching from...…
Can dead voters sway an election? While there are genuine instances of people casting absentee ballots before passing...…
The Obama Administration has gone to the mat to try to prevent states from verifying the citizenship of their registered...…
With a growing number of school choice programs comes a growing body of research on how educational opportunity...…
Florida’s Medicaid Reform Pilot is pro-patient and pro-taxpayer, and the Obama Administration agrees. In original...…