While federal officials continue to tout the benefits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), 20 states have won an important victory in the fight to sue the federal government over the constitutionality of the new law. Judge Roger Vinson of Federal District Court in Pensacola, Fla., struck down the government’s attempt to…
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Several weeks ago, the Bluegrass Institute released my new report, “Virtual schooling in Kentucky: Great promise with challenges,” about virtual learning systems in Kentucky. It focused on the Kentucky Virtual High School system which serves both advanced students who want to take Advanced Placement courses and those students who have fallen behind and need special…
U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves has ruled that Kentucky’s special interest election law limiting individuals’ contributions to candidates for local school board races is unconstitutional. The law restricts contributions from individuals to $100 while the union continues to poor hundreds of thousands into the campaign of its chosen candidates. That unfair and unbalanced policy…
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) increased regulations on coal mining in Kentucky and several other states have done more than just tighten the rules in coal states; they have fueled an angry response from supporters of coal. Coal workers are protesting the increased EPA regulations, as they both threaten their jobs and the coal industry…
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” –Thomas Jefferson
In another radio commentary on farm subsidies, Jim Waters notes that most crops don’t get government handouts and yet thrive. Click here to listen to the 90-second audio commentary.
But, why? The Kentucky Department of Education has some good news about Advanced Placement course taking in Kentucky. The number of test takers, number of tests taken, and number of passing scores (3 or higher) have all increased. We’ll have to wait until Friday to learn how much of the increase comes from the very…
WAVE 3 reports that by a narrow 4 to 3 vote the Jefferson County Board of Education voted to expand the city’s radical busing plan to include the city’s middle schools with the 2011-2012 school term. Jefferson County Board member Joe Hardesty captured my thoughts fairly well when he said, “My concern over implementing anything…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tells it like it is. This time the topic is education budget cuts. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkuTm-ON904] Like New Jersey, Kentucky has education budget challenges driven by skyrocketing benefit costs. Like New Jersey, Kentucky also has powerful teachers’ union bosses obstructing reasonable policymakers from addressing the funding problems. Benefits have been devouring Kentucky’s…