Did EPA Train IRS in Targeting?
May 17, 2013 at 11:06 AMThe Competitive Enterprise Institute documents political bias by the EPA in approval/denial of Freedom of Information Act requests. Green groups had their FOIA requests approved 92% of the time. The Alaska-active Center for Biological Diversity (headquartered in Phoenix, AZ) had a perfect four out of four requests approved. On the other hand, conservative groups such [...]
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Did EPA Train IRS in Targeting?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute documents political bias by the EPA in approval/denial of Freedom of Information Act requests. Green groups had their FOIA requests approved 92% of the time. The Alaska-active Center for Biological Diversity (headquartered in Phoenix, AZ) had a perfect four out of four requests approved. On the other hand, conservative groups such [...]
May 17th, 2013 | Recent News | Read MoreChicago Teachers Union in Bed with Socialists
Remember when the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike last year, closing schools to more than 350,000 kids just as the school year began? This same union is now featured on the cover of the Socialism 2013 Conference being held in Chicago this summer. The small print below the picture of the CTU striking last [...]
May 15th, 2013 | Education, Recent News | Read MoreUnchain Charter Schools & Free 1,258 Students
There is a bill in the State Legislature, HB 93, which would increase the number of charter schools in the state and help meet the strong demand for charter schools in Anchorage and the rest of Alaska. This bill would increase the number of authorizers (those who can authorize the start up of a new [...]
May 7th, 2013 | Education | Read MoreShining the Light on Anchorage Municipal Payroll
We have provided the latest payroll for the Anchorage Municipal employees. There are 2 lists: highest compensated to lowest; and by bargaining unit. To find the lists, click on (read more…).
March 24th, 2013 | Recent News | Read MoreVouchers can improve the fiscal health of school districts
It is a dogma used to criticize school choice so often that it sounds like a broken record: If we allow families to choose whatever school they would like to go to, there will be fiscal Armageddon—Children will leave public schools, and it will drain away funding. So goes the talking point. There was an [...]
March 23rd, 2013 | Education | Read MoreThe (im)moral vision of the NEA
What kind of vision animates those who oppose school choice?
March 3rd, 2013 | Featured, Recent News | Read MoreAlaskans Don’t Know What They Don’t Know–About Education
It seems as if the NEA-AK and its local affiliates are using members’ dues to sponsor commercials which basically say that vouchers will destroy public education as we know it. Trouble is, most of us don’t know the state of public education in Alaska today. Well here are the facts: Did you know that Alaska [...]
February 26th, 2013 | Education, Recent News | Read MoreSchool Choice Experts to Testify at Joint House & Senate Meeting
Four nationally recognized experts on school choice will present to the Joint House/Senate Education and Judiciary Committees on February 13th at 1:30. Kevin Chavous, a national education reform leader, will provide personal experiences showing that school choice benefits all children. He is board chair of Democrats for Education Reform, former chair of the Black Alliance [...]
February 12th, 2013 | Recent News | Read MoreA State at Risk: The Need for Education Reform in Alaska
Read the latest report on the state of education in Alaska from the Alaska Policy Forum.
February 1st, 2013 | Education, Recent News | Read MoreCharter School Legislation Expands Choice to More Kids
Representative Lynn Gattis, House District 9, has introduced HB 93 which will increase the types of authorizers of charter schools. Authorizers are those entities that can approve/disapprove/close charter schools. Currently, only public school districts in Alaska can be authorizers which tends to minimize the number of charter schools. HB 93 would allow government agencies, universities [...]
January 30th, 2013 | Education | Read MoreShould Government Tell You What to do with Your Property?
Pay attention, folks. If you are concerned with the government telling you what you can and cannot do with your private property, then you must comment on the Title 21 code being considered by the Anchorage Assembly. If you think the government should be able to tell you how many windows you can have on [...]
January 22nd, 2013 | Recent News | Read MoreHow Alaska Calculates Oil Taxes and Royalties
Want to know how to calculate the basics on the oil tax debate? How much is Alaska’s take and how much do producers make? Cut through the noise and chatter from both sides of the debate.
January 16th, 2013 | Featured | Read MoreYour Land is My Land. So Says Title 21
Remember Woody Guthrie’s song, “This Land is Your Land”? If Title 21 is enacted by the Anchorage Assembly, then the words to this song may be changed to the following: Your land is my land Your land is my land, From the Chugach Mountains to the Inlet lowland, From the Eklutna dam land to the [...]
January 14th, 2013 | Recent News | Read MoreThis Pork Smells Fishy
Hurricane Sandy left parts of New Jersey and New York in devastation. But who would have thought that it had affected so many parts of America? This had to be the perfect storm stretching from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to the great state of Alaska. At least that is what our Big Government in Washington, [...]
December 19th, 2012 | Fiscal Policy | Read MoreAccountability Improves Education for the Kids
There is a movement going on in Anchorage to change the way School Board members are elected. Currently, they are elected at-large. That is, the entire Municipality votes for a member. The change would have Board members elected by district, the same way we elect Assembly members and our legislators. The intention is to have [...]
December 5th, 2012 | Accountability, Recent News | Read MoreGovernor Parnell on the Right Track with Teacher Evaluations. We are Not Chicago.
Governor Parnell has recommended that the State Board of Education and Early Development (Board) “set the bar higher in weighting teacher and administrator evaluations based on student learning”. Currently, the Board has set the bar so low that anyone can merely walk over the bar. The Board has established that student academic progress should count [...]
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Did EPA Train IRS in Targeting?
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Chicago Teachers Union in Bed with Socialists
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Unchain Charter Schools & Free 1,258 Students
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Shining the Light on Anchorage Municipal Payroll
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Vouchers can improve the fiscal health of school districts
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