Arkansas Is Thinking Big on School Reform. Will It Work?
The governor’s ambitious plan bets heavily on competition, through vouchers and school choice, but there’s no reliable evidence that competition can make a real difference.
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The governor’s ambitious plan bets heavily on competition, through vouchers and school choice, but there’s no reliable evidence that competition can make a real difference.
The ambitious public management crusade of the 1990s has made a mark on governments everywhere. But it’s fallen short of some of its goals.
FDR warned that granting collective bargaining rights for public sector workers was "unthinkable and intolerable," pitting government workers against taxpayers.
THE FOUNDATION "Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican...
An excerpt adapted from 'Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions' by Philip K. Howard.