The Heartland Institute

Only three states Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming have no corporate income tax, but Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott wants to add the Sunshine State to that select list. Scott proposes reducing the state s corporate income tax to zero over the next seven years, but his suggestion has raised concerns among school ...

Discussions on school choice in Illinois are currently focused on the Rev. Sen. James Meeks' school voucher bill and the use of public funds to pay for children from failing schools to be educated in private schools. But the debate and proposals from legislators shouldn't stop there. School choice isn't just about vouchers ...

Although vouchers are supposed to prompt improvements in the public schools through competition for students, the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) have shown little improvement in graduation rates or test scores -- despite the migration of more than 19,000 students to voucher schools over the past 18 years. This lack of improvement ...

This Heartland Policy Study by education expert George Clowes addresses concerns about the efficacy of school vouchers that have been raised recently by some school reform advocates. The author distinguishes between “charity vouchers” and universal vouchers and explains why the former are unlikely to cause systemic reform of public ...