Publication: Heartland Institute

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Schools Test New Ways to Deploy Teachers

Two years ago Romain Bertrand was a middle school math teacher, finishing his fifth year teaching in North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenberg district and thinking he needed a way to reach more teachers and students.He moved to a new position mentoring ... [Published Heartland Institute - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Education, Newark (Illinois, United States), Hoover Institution, Heartland Institute, Chicago

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

The Bloom is Off the Rose: Observations on the 40th Anniversary of the Watergate Hearings

On the 40th anniversary of the first televised U.S. Senate hearing into the Watergate scandal, it’s both disturbing and amusing to watch the wheels coming off the Obama “Hope and Change” wagon.As President Obama’s narrowly-won second White House term ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 17 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, White House, Richard Nixon, Executive (government)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

CO2 Approaches 400 ppm yet Temperatures Remain Flat

Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media with sensationalist reports of carbon dioxide levels approaching 400 parts per million (that’s 4 parts per 10,000, or a 0.0004 share of the atmosphere, versus just under 300 parts per million, ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 17 2013]

Entities: Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming/Climate Change, Industrial Revolution, Heartland Institute, Atmosphere

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Pacific Islands Growing, Not Consumed by Rising Seas

Islands in Tuvalu and other Pacific regions that served as poster children for global warming and sea level rise are actually growing, scientists acknowledge. Scientists report 80 percent of South Pacific islands are either growing or remaining the same ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 17 2013]

Entities: Heartland Institute, Tuvalu, Sea Level Rise

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Scott Kevin Walker

Wisconsin Lawmakers Consider Two School Choice Proposals

In 1989, Wisconsin became the first state to implement school vouchers for poor families. The program began in the Milwaukee School District in 1990 and expanded to Racine School District in 2011.This spring, Gov. Scott Walker (R) and state lawmakers ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 17 2013]

Entities: Glenn Grothman, Milwaukee, Scott Kevin Walker

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Idaho Sets Up State Exchange

Idaho Gov. “Butch” Otter—one of the most prominent opponents of Obamacare—announced his state would implement its own health insurance exchange under the law.Idaho Freedom Foundation executive director Wayne Hoffman, who was a member of the governor’s ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 17 2013]

Entities: Wayne Hoffman, Butch Otter, Obamacare, Health Insurance, Obama Administration

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Heartland Institute

Wisconsin Governor Says to Cut Income Tax if Internet Sales Tax Passes

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) says the state should use additional revenue it might receive from Internet sales taxes to cut the state’s income tax.“I want to make clear, should federal Marketplace legislation become law, my intention would be for ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 16 2013]

Entities: Taxes, Marketplace, Heartland Institute

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Florida Official Declines to Review Costly Nuclear Power Plant

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, whose agency oversees state energy policy, told Rep. Mike Fasano (R-New Port Richey) today he does not have the resources to perform an economic analysis to determine whether a proposed nuclear power plant ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 17 2013]

Entities: Adam Putnam, Mike Fasano, Nuclear Power Plant, Renewable Energy

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Research & Commentary: Privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority

In his 2014 budget, President Barack Obama called for a strategic review of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The budget stated selling or privatizing the TVA could result in a significant cut in the federal deficit and “put the nation on a sustainable ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 16 2013]

Entities: Tennessee Valley Authority, Concealment, Heartland Institute, Reason Foundation, Barack Obama

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Mixed Response to President’s Proposal to Privatize the TVA

President Obama wants to privatize one of the nation’s largest government-owned companies, a proposal that is bringing pushback from some unlikely sources: politicians who ordinarily promote themselves as favoring smaller government and more free ent ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 16 2013]

Entities: Concealment, Monopoly, Heartland Institute, Tennessee Valley Authority

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Education and Capitalism (podcast)

Joseph Bast, President of the Heartland Institute, and Dr. Herbert Walberg, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Heartland Institute, discuss their book Image by the . The mission of the Heartland Institute is to discover, develop, and promote free-market ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 16 2013]

Entities: Heartland Institute, Education, Chicago

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Rubio Champions Federal School Choice Bill

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio has gone on the road to promote a federal tax-credit scholarship bill aimed at helping poor children attend private schools. The program is about “giving parents more choices,” he says.“This bill will incentivize investment in ... [Published Heartland Institute - May 16 2013]

Entities: Marco Rubio, Private School, Federal, Jeb Bush, Fuentes

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"But we are a creation of the government and this is within the owner's prerogative,” Johnson said. “And actually, in the private world you do this all the time. It's not a surprising idea to justify our existence by demonstrating the value we create every day."

Mixed Response to President’s Proposal to Privatize the TVA [Published Heartland Institute - May 16 2013]

...what we've been saying all along--this program is lawful," said Kenneth Campbell, president of the Black Alliance for Educational Options. "We are confident that the program will remain intact in Louisiana."

Jindal to Revive Struck Voucher Program [Published Heartland Institute - May 08 2013]

...Aaron Carroll suggested (laughably) that a multi-year study of 10,000 people . Jonathan Cohn headlines his piece: "The New Study that Republicans Who Reject Medicaid Must Read: A report indicates just how important it can be in improving poor people's lives." But buried in the third to last paragraph, you find: To which we ought to respond: Isn’t that the whole bloody point?

How the Oregon Medicaid Study is Rocking Liberal Assumptions [Published Heartland Institute - May 02 2013]

"It's an informational session where the city will be talking about its assets and its fiscal condition. It was never intended to be a public meeting" city finance chief Rob DuBow told the Inquirer in defense of the secrecy

Secret Meeting With Bond Underwriters Fuels Speculation in Philadelphia [Published Heartland Institute - May 01 2013]

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