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API Urges Legislature to Create a Trust Fund for New Royalties
Michael Ciamarra - December 20, 2006
In their final hours, Congress passed the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, S. 3711 which will create enormous new windfall royalties for Alabama. This federal law...
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The Fordham Report 2006: How Well Are States Educating Our Neediest Children?
Michael Ciamarra - December 13, 2006
The Fordham Report 2006: How Well Are States Educating our Neediest Children? appraises each state according to thirty indicators across three major categories...
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API Releases New Study - Alabama Can Benefit from Privatizing Some of its Corrections System
Michael Ciamarra - Nov. 15, 2006
A new report from the Alabama Policy Institute finds that private prison contracting can save money and relieve the persistent overcrowding of Alabama’s jails.
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Newt Gingrich Speaks at API Annual Banquet
Michael Ciamarra - Nov. 14, 2006
Newt Gingrich spoke to the Alabama Policy Institute’s Seventeenth Annual Banquet on Nov. 9. Despite a bout with laryngitis, as Newt quipped, “This is Alan Colmes’ revenge...
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API in the News – Accountability in State Government
Michael Ciamarra - October 31, 2006
Technology when properly used should make state and local governments more responsive to the citizens it serves and creative in meeting their needs, as it has...
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Alabama’s Cultural Indicators 2006
Michael Ciamarra - September 26, 2006
Every two years the Alabama Policy Institute releases data pertaining to family, crime, education, and other key demographic changes in Alabama. Alabama’s...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Cost of Government
Michael Ciamarra - September 7, 2006
A recent study by the Public Policy Institute of New York puts Alabama ahead of all other states. When state, city and county taxes are combined, Alabama ranks last in the...
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The Birmingham News Highlights API Study
Michael Ciamarra - September 6, 2006
In case you missed it, the Birmingham News (Paying Twice for High School, 9/2/06) editorial page cited the Alabama Policy Institute’s (API) study on remedial education costs.
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API President Comments on New Remedial Ed Study
Michael Ciamarra - August 30, 2006
API’s The Cost of Remedial Education: How Much Alabama Pays When Students Fail to Learn Basic Skills was the first of its kind to be published in Alabama...
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Questions on State Dept. of Education 'graduation' rates continue
Michael Ciamarra - 2006
For years Alabama lawmakers have gone through the motions to 'improve' education while resigning themselves to accepting a failed system guarded by the education...
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