Message From the Publisher – J. Stanley Marshall
The unions claim to represent educators’ best interests. Don’t be too sure.
From the Editor’s Desk – Robert F. Sanchez
In a momentous mid-term election year, the importance of enduring principles can be lost in a political process that focuses both money and attention on the quest for power.
COVER STORY
The …
2010 Summer Journal 
Posted 07/26/2010
2010 Summer Journal–SB6 Student Assignment
Posted 07/06/2010
2010 June – Reviving Our “Laboratories of Democracy”
Posted 06/22/2010
Current Edition of Madison Policy Digest
Posted 06/22/2010 Click to read: Madison Policy Digest – August 13, 2010
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2010 Summer Messenger
Posted 06/14/2010
2010 Legislative Report
Posted 06/11/2010
By Thomas Perrin, Director of Public Affairs
Many of the public policy ideas that The James Madison Institute has espoused over the last two decades gained traction in the 2010 Regular Session, while still others wait for their window of opportunity. This year, the Florida Legislature took some bold steps that garnered national attention, particularly on …
April 2010 – Issue Analysis “Public Employee Pension Reform”
Posted 05/20/2010
INTRODUCTION
Public employee pensions were originally intended to supplement the retirees’ Social Security benefits and other sources of retirement income. The promise of pensions helped governments recruit skilled employees while also ensuring that retired public employees need not spend their “golden years” in a state of poverty and deprivation. However, such pensions were never intended to …
May 2010 – Talking Points “Virtual Schooling: Disrupting the Status Quo”
Posted 04/16/2010
May 2010 – Policy Brief No. 7 “Virtual Schooling: Disrupting the Status Quo”
Posted 04/16/2010
Introduction
Ever since the creation of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) in 1997, Florida has been among the nation’s leaders in the fast-growing online learning movement. From humble origins serving 77 students with a start-up $200,000 Florida Department of Education “Break the Mold” grant, FLVS grew to serve more than 70,000 students in the 2008-2009 school …
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- 2010-August6 FYI: JMI to Host Florida Transparency Summit featuring Andrew Breitbart
- 2010 – July27 Press Release: Summer Journal “The Quest for Excellence Should Not Be Absent from the Debate on Teacher Pay and Tenure”
- Behind the Texas Textbook Fracas
- 2010-July5 Media Citing: National Review “Give Freely”
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San Diego, CA (Aug 6) - Friedman Day Celebration
Tallahassee (Jul 30) - 4th Biennial Old-Fashioned Political Jamboree
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