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		<title>Charter Schools Flourish in Harlem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
 The Harlem Armory in upper Manhattan was built in 1933 to honor the celebrated 369th Regiment—also known as the Harlem Hellfighters, the first black regiment to fight in World War I. On a recent Saturday, however, the Art Deco edifice at Fifth Avenue and 142nd Street hosted an army of parents and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/03/10/charter-schools-flourish-in-harlem/</link>
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		<title>The Other Government Takeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
Everyone knows Democrats are planning to use the budget reconciliation process to get ObamaCare through the Senate. Less well known is that Democrats are plotting add-ons to that bill to get other liberal priorities enacted—programs that could never attract 60 votes.
One of these controversial measures rewrites the Higher Education Act to ban private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/03/10/the-other-government-takeover/</link>
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		<title>Six Steps Toward Financial Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
The devastating consequences of the financial crisis are all too familiar: billions of dollars and millions of jobs lost, and along with them lost confidence in the might of the American economy and the U.S. role as a global superpower. The question now is: What can we learn from the crisis and how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/03/08/six-steps-toward-financial-reform/</link>
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		<title>Getting Through to Unions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NY Post
It’s amazing what a mass of pink slips can do to make a teachers union see the light — especially when the layoffs are publicly hailed by the president of the United States.
On Monday, President Obama endorsed the decision by Rhode Island’s smallest, poorest city to fire the entire unionized faculty of its notoriously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/03/08/getting-through-to-unions/</link>
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		<title>Time for a Spending Cap with Teeth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
Fiscal storm clouds are upon us. In five years, federal spending has skyrocketed to 24.7% from 19.9% of our economy. That&#8217;s the highest level since World War II. Borrowing has ballooned the national debt to $11.9 trillion from $7.3 trillion, a five-year increase equal to the accumulation of debt between President George Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/03/05/time-for-a-spending-cap-with-teeth/</link>
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		<title>Fatted Leviathan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Review
The time bomb of runaway benefits for government employees 
The collapse of the housing market has been an object lesson for America. Households and banks borrowed too much on expectations of continuing appreciation in real-estate prices. This extra borrowing inflated a bubble until it burst. By discounting the future too optimistically, we let the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/25/fatted-leviathan/</link>
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		<title>No (Tenured) Teacher Left Behind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
School reformers generally agree that the most important education resource is the teacher. But one of the biggest obstacles to putting a good instructor in every classroom is a tenure system that forces principals to hire and retain teachers based on seniority instead of performance.
California grants tenure to teachers after merely two years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/25/no-tenured-teacher-left-behind/</link>
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		<title>Preaching Choice in Obama&#8217;s Hometown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
&#8216;The voucher movement seems to have been born, or seems to have been started as a Republican idea. That&#8217;s the way Democrats look at it. That&#8217;s the way black lawmakers look at it. This is a Republican idea. This is what the Republicans want to push on us. . . . We don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/25/preaching-choice-in-obamas-hometown/</link>
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		<title>JOY OF SIX (FIGURES)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Post
They get an &#8220;A&#8221; in reading, writing &#8212; and retirement.
There are 738 educators collecting city pensions more than $100,000 &#8212; and three make more than $200,000, records show.
The $100,000-plus club makes up 1 percent of about 70,000 retirees in the city Teachers Retirement System, which doled out $3.8 billion in benefits in 2009.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/25/joy-of-six-figures/</link>
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		<title>The United States: Debtor and Leader?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
It&#8217;s hard to be a moral leader to the world when you have compromised your own future through fiscal irresponsibility. But that&#8217;s precisely the problem facing America today: Ballooning federal debt and a hollowed-out private sector threaten to render our nation a spent political force. What makes it worse is the realization we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/20/the-united-states-debtor-and-leader/</link>
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