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Are High Housing Costs Restraining California's Growth?
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Selling Meg Whitman in California

with Bill Whalenvia Wall Street Journal
Friday, November 20, 2009

The race to succeed California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is shaping up to be the most captivating election in the country next year. . . .

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State Politics Roundup

with Bill Whalenvia KQED
Friday, November 20, 2009

Voters will go to the polls next year to elect a new governor, as well as to determine the political fate of the state's junior senator, Barbara Boxer. . . .

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State's school funding process is failing

with Eric Hanushekvia Los Angeles Times
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Californians don't understand how badly our schools are shortchanged, because it's impossible to track the education dollar and determine whether it's being spent effectively. . . .

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Schools and the future of California

with Eric Hanushekvia Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

One can count on two developments after every gubernatorial election: The victor will declare himself or herself the "education governor," and nothing will be done. . . .

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Role of NAEP Could Change With Common Assessments

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Week
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

For decades, when elected officials, researchers, educators, and parents have wanted a clear-eyed measure of what students know in a range of subjects, they have turned to an authoritative source: the National Assessment of Educational Progress. . . .

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Forum: Peoria charter school promises to help students and community

with Caroline M. Hoxbyvia Peoria Journal Star
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

For a state that contains the third-largest school district in the country, it is vexing that Illinois ranks 47th in educational funding. . . .

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The Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing

with Williamson M. Eversvia NBC11 News (CA)
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Talking about tests with Bill Evers, research fellow at the Hoover Institution and former assistant secretary of education for policy, and Sean Reardon, associate professor at Stanford's School of Education. . . .

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Campbell takes Silicon Valley in new San Jose State poll

with Bill Whalenvia San Jose Mercury News
Monday, November 16, 2009

In a San Jose State University poll released Monday, Campbell, a former Silicon Valley congressman seeking the GOP nomination for governor, crushed his competition — former eBay chief Meg Whitman and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, a valley entrepreneur. . . .

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Analysis and Commentary

Almost nothing

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A very illuminating story on “jobs saved.” . . .

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Maine's Pelosi/Baucus Care

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

An excellent news story in today's New York Times highlights the problems with government regulation of health insurance in Maine, problems that, the reporter notes, would likely occur if the U.S. Senate's and the U.S. House of Representatives' versions of health insurance "reform" were implemented. . . .

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