Alison Lake

382 days ago - A wall will eventually sag or crumble if too many blocks are missing. The same thing can happen to a child’s education when he or she lacks too many skills. Because so many taxpayer-funded schools are not providing adequate instruction to children, parents must look elsewhere to help fill the gaps.

737 days ago - Reports of faltering schools across Maryland mar the anticipation of a new school year that should be focused on positive activities like buying school supplies and meeting new teachers. These discouraging numbers should leave parents to wonder what their district school can or cannot provide for their children. Instead, the state board of education chose to highlight the four out of five elementary schools statewide that met performance benchmarks.

773 days ago - Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley announced recently in his gubernatorial campaign that he will consider buying prescription drugs from Canada and abroad as a way to reduce health care costs for Marylanders. But that policy can potentially harm both consumers and the economics of drug creation and sale in the United States.

790 days ago - Thousands of miles away in Arizona, a small but significant program hatched here in Maryland became law in June. But Maryland’s 11,500 foster care children, 7,000 of whom are in Baltimore City, have yet to benefit from this program designed by The Maryland Public Policy Institute.