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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
Israel Ortega commenting on the political fallout from the Supreme Court's ruling on the New Haven firefighters case. … Read more
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)… Read more
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 state's A+… Read more
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… Read more
With a growing number of school choice programs comes a growing body of research on how educational opportunity...… Read more
Florida’s Medicaid Reform Pilot is pro-patient and pro-taxpayer, and the Obama Administration agrees. In original...… Read more
The disheartening impact of Obamacare has solidified doubt and resistance surrounding federal health reform. It will...… Read more
As individuals and families around the nation celebrated Independence Day and the blessings of freedom and opportunity...… Read more
Florida, already an education reform leader, took further steps this week to expand educational opportunity and provide...… Read more
We’ve all heard of the fashion police but probably assumed that was just a figure of speech. It turns out, however,...… Read more
Florida is widely recognized as the state leader in education reform. Students in the Sunshine State have made the...… Read more
After weeks of delay, the Obama Administration finally went ahead and did it. Early last night, the Department of...… Read more
After weeks of delay, the Obama Administration finally went ahead and did it. Early Tuesday night, the Department of...… Read more
Last week, Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) rejected $2.4 billion in federal funding for a proposed high-speed rail line...… Read more