School Choice Works, but the politicians are killing it

We at the Rio Grande Foundation have believed it for a long time, and it only makes sense: giving parents and students greater control over education decisions improves results. Of course, if you’ve been following the debate, you may also be aware that the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats are dismantling choice programs. The problem [...]

Bailing Out the College of Santa Fe

It seems that Governor Richardson and the City of Santa Fe are dead set on saving the bankrupt College of Santa Fe. Richardson has pledged $11 million for the school — don’t you love how politicians, particularly the executive branch, can arbitrarily throw massive amounts of money around regardless of what the Legislature does or [...]

Enough Said

Mimi Stewart is Just Nuts

There’s no other way to say it. She wrote an opinion piece in the Albuquerque Journal on Wednesday and I just find it amazing that she continues to push a half-billion-dollar annual tax hike on struggling New Mexicans.
Her first specific point is about the study the Legislature commissioned by American Institutes for Research which found [...]

New Mexico Education Falling Further Behind

If you read this blog regularly, the postings on the topic of education will begin to sound like a broken record. Unfortunately, the key word is “broken” as our educational system is. More evidence was provided recently b the findings of the American Legislative Exchange Council, the limited government-oriented national legislative umbrella organization based in [...]

New Mexico Business Battles Education Establishment

Recently, I blogged about the arrogant and ignorant comments made by Ellen Bernstein, the head of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation. Basically, Bernstein told the business community to “sit down and shut up” if they don’t support higher taxes for education.
While New Mexico’s beleaguered and small business community, particularly the Albuquerque Chamber, has repeatedly sold out [...]

Proposed Tax Increase For Education

The New Mexico legislature has announced that it will be decreasing government funding across the state, which will effect spending on public schools. This has created an uproar among many people who believe that the solution to our education problem here in New Mexico is to give more money to schools. Toward the end of [...]

Educational Hubris

I just love New Mexico’s education bureaucracy and the people who defend it. Now, as I’ve discussed previously, the education establishment is pushing for a massive tax hike to fund even more wasteful spending — this despite the fact that the educational system is set to receive a massive cash infusion from the federal stimulus [...]

Adequate Education Funding?

Now that the education establishment is lobbying for higher taxes, the pleas for “adequate” education funding are pouring forth. Recently, Sharon Morgan of the National Education Association New Mexico argued that point on the pages of the Albuquerque Journal.
The problem is that among the platitudes and discussion of schools as “community hubs,” Morgan makes [...]

No Tax Hikes for Education

Rarely do we at the Rio Grande Foundation see eye to eye with left-wing Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, but he actually talked some sense in a recent column in the Alibi. His conclusion and ours: higher taxes are not the solution to improving education in New Mexico.
In a letter to the editor I expressed [...]

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