Articles By Author Sarah McIntosh
Articles by Sarah McIntosh
03/15/2010 12:00 AM
Today’s lesson: Students shouldn’t eat colorful candy in front of their computers. Michael and Holly Robbins, the parents of a 16-year-old ...(read more)
03/15/2010 12:00 AM
School choice activists in Arizona are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found the state’s 13-year-old tax credit ...(read more)
03/11/2010 12:00 AM
“Red tape waivers” will become available to public school administrators in Louisiana, if Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has his way. Jindal is pushing ...(read more)
03/11/2010 12:00 AM
School choice may continue its slow but steady gains in Georgia with legislation to expand the state’s voucher program to cover foster children and ...(read more)
02/04/2010 12:00 AM
There’s no one way to educate children, say the people running Franklin Schools and Thales Schools in North Carolina.These schools, both founded by ...(read more)
02/03/2010 12:00 AM
Zachary Bonner is only in sixth grade, but he’s already casting a big shadow.For the past four years—since the ripe old age of 7—Bonner ...(read more)
01/04/2010 12:00 AM
As Congress continues to debate sweeping health care legislation, reports indicate the threat of greater regulation is already hiking costs as drug companies ...(read more)
12/28/2009 12:00 AM
The potential costs of the health care bills under consideration on Capitol Hill continue to rise as mandates, regulations, and subsidies boost the ...(read more)
12/26/2009 12:00 AM
In Tennessee the potential dangers of trusting low cost estimates for state health care expansion are making themselves evident as TennCare beneficiaries ...(read more)
12/23/2009 12:00 AM
School choice could save the state of Vermont $80 million to $300 million per year, according to a study conducted by the Ethan Allen Institute, a public ...(read more)
12/19/2009 12:00 AM
Families who can’t afford or don’t have access to professional help for their autistic children now have an online tool available at their fingertips.Rethink ...(read more)
12/18/2009 12:00 AM
During the health care debate in the Senate, few lawmakers have attracted more attention than Democrat Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska. But while Nelson ...(read more)
12/17/2009 12:00 AM
For the last several months the Arizona media has reported extensively on the state’s tuition tax-credit programs, characterizing them as rife with ...(read more)
12/16/2009 12:00 AM
After a series of investigative reports alleging Arizona organizations distributing tax credit scholarships funds lack accountability, a legislative task ...(read more)
11/10/2009 12:00 AM
Illustrating the importance of wellness promotion in the debate over health care reform, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee approved ...(read more)
11/05/2009 12:00 AM
As health care reform dominates discussions on Capitol Hill, the experience of states such as New Jersey, which has one of the largest uninsured populations ...(read more)
11/05/2009 12:00 AM
The debate over selling human organs has come into the news again following the arrest this summer of a New Jersey businessman accused of buying and selling ...(read more)
11/04/2009 12:00 AM
State governments are bracing for the effects of the most-prominent congressional health care proposals, all of which would expand Medicaid and increase ...(read more)
11/03/2009 12:00 AM
Demand is high but supply is low for Maryland students wanting to attend a charter school. The state has 42, but almost all of them are in Baltimore—leaving ...(read more)
10/30/2009 12:00 AM
Parents across Michigan want more options for their children’s education, according to a report issued by the Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency.“Explaining ...(read more)
10/29/2009 12:00 AM
A task force has been named by the Arizona legislature to investigate whether scholarship-granting organizations are playing by the rules or gaming the ...(read more)
10/24/2009 12:00 AM
Charter schools in Ohio will face closure at the end of this school year if their performance and growth are not up to par. Legislation passed in 2005 and ...(read more)
10/23/2009 12:00 AM
Having seen the success of charter schools in Louisiana, 19 groups are currently seeking permission to allow them to open as many as 23 new charter schools ...(read more)
10/23/2009 12:00 AM
Under a new budget adopted by the state legislature, Pennsylvania will reduce educational opportunities for students statewide receiving scholarships through ...(read more)
10/22/2009 12:00 AM
A study by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research has found special education vouchers can keep children from being mislabeled as disabled.It’s ...(read more)
