Articles By Author Jim Waters
Articles by Jim Waters
03/15/2010 12:00 AM
The nation’s largest state was not among the 15 states and the District of Columbia chosen to advance in the competition for a share of Race to the ...(read more)
03/01/2010 12:00 AM
Making it easier for Virginia’s parents to place their special-needs children in private school would not only help families faced with the daunting ...(read more)
01/25/2010 12:00 AM
Making it easier for Virginia’s parents to place their special-needs children in private school would not only help families faced with the daunting ...(read more)
12/25/2009 12:00 AM
Like other cash-starved states, California is having trouble navigating the policy obstacle course involved in qualifying and competing for $4.35 billion ...(read more)
12/15/2009 12:00 AM
When tolls refuse to hit the road—even after projects they fund are fully paid—not much of what follows seems good for toll payers or taxpayers.According ...(read more)
10/01/2009 12:00 AM
If a new school choice survey in Kentucky were a weather forecast, the outlook would be “sunny and hot.”According to the survey, released August ...(read more)
09/01/2009 12:00 AM
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson (D) uses his veto pen about as often as a Kentucky Derby winner ends up with the Triple Crown—almost never.The leading ...(read more)
09/01/2009 12:00 AM
The passage of a new law in late May and the strengthening of another in mid-July mean the end of a rollercoaster ride for hundreds of disabled and displaced ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
Corbin, Kentucky is home to the restaurant where Col. Sanders began his finger-lickin’-good Kentucky Fried Chicken enterprise several decades ago. ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
Funding the nation’s bridges and highways will become more difficult without a move away from fuel taxes to a vehicle miles traveled charge and congestion ...(read more)
06/01/2009 12:00 AM
Hundreds of people gathered at the Florida Capitol in late April to turn in 5,500 petition signatures protesting budget cuts that would have slashed millions ...(read more)
05/01/2009 12:00 AM
A leading University of Kentucky economist says empowering parents through school choice will prove more effective in reforming public education than the ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
While President Barack Obama proposes to restart the economy via the largest public-works construction program since the inception of the national interstate ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
When the Kentucky Education Reform Act was passed in 1990, the law was hailed nationally as a model for closing funding and academic gaps in one of the ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
A Blue Ribbon Commission determined to find ways to raise new revenue for Colorado’s roads and bridges seems to be taking seriously the old adage: ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
More than 200 parents and their special-needs children showed up outside the Arizona Supreme Court on December 9, carrying signs and chanting “school ...(read more)
01/01/2009 12:00 AM
A coalition of black pastors, civil rights leaders, and school choice activists is combining research and grassroots action to promote school choice as ...(read more)
01/01/2009 12:00 AM
Buoyed by growing participation in his state’s existing school choice programs and with public opinion surveys showing vast support for vouchers, ...(read more)
12/01/2008 12:00 AM
In news that has come as something of a surprise to economy watchers, the South is no longer the U.S. region offering the most promising trend toward economic ...(read more)
12/01/2008 12:00 AM
Arizona may be a leader in the school choice movement, but that hasn’t stopped opponents from continuing to mount legal challenges against the state’s ...(read more)
10/08/2008 12:00 AM
Media people, union officials, owners of small stores, politicians, and many others routinely criticize Wal-Mart for nearly as many reasons as there are ...(read more)
10/08/2008 12:00 AM
John Garen, chief economist at the University of Kentucky, says the growth of new businesses to replace ones that close after Wal-Mart moves into a town ...(read more)
09/01/2008 12:00 AM
It took an act of God, converted legislators, and a U-Haul at the governor's mansion to bring meaningful school choice to New Orleans.
As a result, the ...(read more)
09/01/2008 12:00 AM
In an eye-opening October 2007 Boston Globe article assessing developments in the New Orleans schools, James Peyser, former chairman of the Massachusetts ...(read more)
07/01/2008 12:00 AM
One outspoken Northern Kentucky mayor warns steps must be taken "soon" to repair an aging bridge in his community and avoid a catastrophe similar to last ...(read more)
