While 62 percent of Virginia’s voters believe the state’s public school system is good or excellent, by similar margins those same voters also favor education choice reforms such as charter schools, tax-credit scholarships, and school vouchers. The poll was conducted by Braun Research, which has previously conducted polling for Gallup...
How do we protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay? Every once in a while we get a peak at someone who goes beyond the headlines and offers up something more like sense and sensibility. Here’s just one example.
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Could the high-profile Kerfuffle over the state’s contract to consolidate and manage Virginia’s information technology (IT) infrastructure diminish our appetite for outsourcing and public-private partnerships?
... The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, the state’s leading non-partisan foundation focused at improving state and local government, released results of a survey today on Government Transparency taken by candidates running in this fall’s elections. “In an era of scarce resources, it is vital that state and local governments...
Turning government toward market based reforms is not an easy task and takes time and patience. Many of the policy changes debated today for confronting the serious problems faced by our state are based on the ideas first brought to the public policy form by the Thomas Jefferson Institute. Here...
