Pioneer Institute's Better Government Competition rewards federalism-focused policy proposals. The winner will receive $10,000!

"Short Circuited: The Challenges Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California" based on the book by Lance T. Izumi and Vicki E. Murray, highlights the difficulties parents and children encounter as they search for online educational options.

Charlie Arlinghaus interviews former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the first installment of the Josiah Bartlett Center's "Substance Over Soundbites Series." View the 10-video series here.

Education-reform advocates won a key victory today, with a judge upholding the constitutionality of Arizona's first-in-the-nation education savings accounts. The Maricopa County Superior Court rejected a legal challenge by the Arizona School Boards Association and the Arizona Education Association against the accounts, known formally as empowerment scholarship accounts.

Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it - a total of $3 billion altogether. "This might be the most government-supported car since the Trabant," said analyst James Hohman, referring to the car produced by the former Communist state of East Germany.

Because families' options are increasing, more kids are receiving the motivating, challenging, effective education they deserve. We have come a long way-but there is still much to be done. The opponents of choice will only increase their efforts to maintain the status quo. This guide can provide up-to-date, accurate information about successful school choice programs throughout the country.

The unions aren't done yet: they're now trying to recall Walker from office. To do so, they will try to convince Wisconsin voters that Walker's reforms have rendered the state ungovernable. But the evidence, so far, contradicts that claim-and Wisconsinites seem to realize it.

The 2012 legislative session is underway--but how can Washington voters easily know what their senator and representatives are up to? The Freedom Foundation collects the latest news, analysis, action items, and multimedia covering what's going on in Olympia. Keeping information and analysis readily available in shareable formats allows voters to stay informed and make the best decisions for their state.

The Idaho Freedom Foundation responded to statements from their governor that the state would lose $300 million in federal funds for Idaho's Medicaid program if it did not create an Obamacare insurance exchange. Media across the state picked up on IFF's commentaries, keeping Idaho's officials accountable and encouraging honest, mature debate.

When it comes to government's essential role in funding education, the holiest of grails is significantly improving quality while simultaneously constraining costs. Suffice it to say, no level of government, in or out of Minnesota, can point to many successes in melding and achieving these two imperatives in elementary and secondary schools as online learning