Some 58.6 percent of students say they like charter schools because of good teachers. Teachers also applauded the educational philosophy of charter schools by a resounding 76.8 percent. About 25 states and the District of Columbia have laws that allow groups to organize charter schools. Nearly 50 percent of students in the schools are members of minority groups. Those actually attending games at the new stadium will only pay 16 percent of construction costs through parking and admissions taxes.
Experts say such arrangements are commonplace.
The National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service is due to present its report to Congress today. Some 1,500 IRS agents were investigated in 1994 and 1995 for suspected snooping on returns. Critics say the agency has developed an inbred culture in which only six of the top 200 employees have been with it for less than 15 years. Economists Aldona and Gary Robbins of the Institute for Policy Innovation have demonstrated that every extra dollar spent on higher education from 1973 to 1993 drove up the real cost per student by 40 cents. Expand the credit to dependents 21 years and younger, Heritage concludes, and families would have more than enough to afford four years of tuition at an average public university.