There’s more money to be spent on transportation — if only someone would count it! View Commentary
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With graduation rates for black high school students significantly lower than for white students, some black Democratic legislators are looking in new directions to empower parents and provide opportunity. Here are some of the heros.
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It’s deja vu all over again: Both the Governor and the State Senate are talking about higher taxes, this time for transportation. You’d never know that a revolution has taken place in highway construction and financing — and this one is leaving Virginia behind.
... We should need to resort to tax increases.
... Virginia’s political leadership confronts a wide range of issues this year — from Medicaid costs to transportation to education. Will anyone step “stir the pot” with innovative ideas that will work?
... Here’s one way to relieve traffic in Northern Virginia: Give drivers the option of paying for congestion-free roadways (and free up space on the “free” road to boot).
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A new Governor and a new House of Delegates deserve new ideas. The next four years will be challenging ones, and in this “Blueprint”, the Thomas Jefferson Institute and its independent researchers offer ideas for facing those challenges — in Transportation, Education, Government Reform, the Environment, Technology-Based Economic Development, and...
Before the Virginia General Assembly approves Governor-elect Tim Kaine’s $300 million a year entitlement program in preschool education, it should at least ask a simple question: Does this work?
... It’s time to get better control of state spending. If Governor-elect Kaine and the General Assembly are serious about it, here are some ideas for doing so, and ending the “boom and bust” state spending cycles.
... The federal No Child Left Behind Act has been controversial from the start, attracting opposition — and support — from across the political spectrum. In 2007, its reauthorization will come before Congress — but the time for a serious discussion about reforming NCLB needs to take place now, rather than...
