Policy and Research

Public Education

We believe that providing a quality education to all children is vital to the future prosperity of the United States, both as a social justice issue and an economic issue. Yet as a society we have become increasingly unwilling to make the tough choices and sacrifices required to transform our failing inner city schools that predominantly serve the children of ethnic and racial minorities into thriving learning communities. Too often it is the interests of the adults that are served by current education policies rather than those of students and their parents. Emerging research shows that even the poorest and most disadvantaged kids can succeed at levels comparable to white and Asian students and their peers in suburban schools if their needs are allowed to shape school policy. These include but are not limited to:  highly devoted teachers who seek to not only shape the minds of their students but their character; the development of an environment conducive to learning; and schools that have greater control over their budgets, staff, curriculum, and the time students spend in class.

Islands of Excellence in a Sea of Mediocrity

The Public Purse

We believe that the adoption of fiscally responsible budgetary policies by the federal, state, and local governments is essential to ensuring the future economic well-being of the United States and the preservation of a high standard of living. Over the past half century, policy makers have acquiesced to the desire of citizens for both an ever growing array of services and benefits and the maintenance of a low level of taxation that does not support those benefits. The consequence has been an increasing imbalance between governmental receipts and expenditures at all levels that will in the near future become unsustainable. To close this gap and avoid bequeathing to the next generation an unprecedented budgetary crisis, citizens and their representatives must undertake the difficult task of enacting policies that will allow each of these programs to become perpetually self-sustaining, i.e. the projected tax revenue must be equal to the projected costs. We only need to look to Greece for an example of the extreme choices we as a nation will be forced to make in the future if we fail to control our spending.

Mortgaging Our Future

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