Patrick R. Gibbons
School fights
Parents will ultimately win the right of school choice
Examining how parents' desire for school choice divides the Democratic party.
Meeting the challenges in special education
Parental choice would be a wise and affordable first step
Special education vouchers improve the quality of education for special needs children and keep others from being misidentified as disabled.
Same old story in Nevada education
Silver State still in need of genuine reform
Cornelius Vanderbilt sold passages across the Atlantic on steamers for as little as $30 a ticket. Andrew Carnegie's steel company became so efficient it forced the world price for steel down from $56 per ton to just $11.50 in less than 30 years. John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, by 1890, was selling oil for just eight cents a gallon. These entrepreneurs ran their businesses efficiently and made their profits massive by simply giving customers what customers wanted — at better rates than did the competition. Today they are vilified as robber barons, as many people focus on tales of good or bad intentions, rather than actual good results.
When children don’t matter
Nevada public education has become a jobs program for adults
When your car breaks down, you can take it to a knowledgeable mechanic or even pick up a how-to guide and repair it yourself. But when political or economic systems are the problem, no similarly easy solutions exist. What we do have, however, are how-not-to states. Like...
