Recent Calvert Institute PublicationsSolving Maryland’s Teacher Staffing Crisis May 3rd, 2013
Solving Maryland’s Teacher Staffing Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Teacher Certification in Maryland and Other States The Calvert Institute for Policy Research 8 West Hamilton Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Christopher P. Ryan [...]
March 11th, 2013
Mismanaged Maryland Despite talk of reforms and budget cuts, Annapolis dabbles in excessive borrowing, noncompetitive projects and risky investments By George Liebmann6:00 a.m. EDT, March 11, 2013 There is a sharp disconnect between the image and reality of the O’Malley administration’s fiscal policies. The image features pension reforms, reduced structural deficits, [...]
November 18th, 2012
Captain of the Black Sox One of the more curious and notable decisions rendered by the Maryland Court of Appeals in recent years is its short opinion in Ports v. Cowan, 426 Md.435 (2012) holding that Maryland, notwithstanding that it had an as yet unrepealed statute and public policy declaring marriage to be between [...]
November 18th, 2012
Free Enterprise, Maryland Style Nearly fifty years ago, the present writer served as counsel to the Maryland Home Improvement Commission, an administrative agency which had just been immortalized in Barry Levinson’s The Tin Men. The agency then functioned under a statute that was more a self-certification than licensing statute. To obtain a license required [...]
Teacher Certification in Maryland November 18th, 2012
Maryland’s Protective Tariff Against Teachers In 2011, Maryland colleges produced 2897 graduates from state-approved teacher education programs, out of 28701 new Maryland college graduates (Maryland Higher Education Report, 2011, p.17). Barely 10% of Maryland’s college graduates are thus eligible for regular certification as teachers in Maryland’s public schools. The regulations governing approved teacher education [...]
Maryland and Distance Learning November 18th, 2012
Strangled in its Cradle Morality, it is said, is what you do when no one is looking. To assess the morality of the O’Malley administration and its favored clients, the teachers’ unions, it is appropriate to look at an obscure enactment, passed and signed ‘under the radar screen’, Chapter 288 of the Acts of 2012. [...]
November 2nd, 2012
George Liebmann: Switzerland in America Gazette Newspapers, November 2, 2012 The ballot referendums are important since two cure-alls of the 1970s, campaign finance “reform” and strict reapportionment, have delivered the legislature to reliable partisans and ‘bundlers” of campaign contributions. Referendums have served the Swiss well. The casino bill and congressional redistricting reflect the culture [...]
Marylanders Get A Taste of Veto Democracy October 30th, 2012
Marylanders get a taste of veto democracy Referendums allow voters to check Annapolis’ excesses 0 By George Liebmann 1:21 p.m. EDT, October 30, 2012 Marylanders will soon have an opportunity common in a country other than their own: the right to veto a legislature’s product. [...]
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Recent Calvert Institute Press HitsG. Liebmann, “Mismanaged Maryland,” Baltimore Sun, March 11, 2013. M. Dresser and E.Cox, “Next 90 Days Could Be Crucial for O’Malley,” Baltimore Sun, January 9, 2013, A1. C. Jenkins-Houk, “Gay Couples Deserve Equal Opportunity to Wreck the Institution of Marriage,” Baltimore Sun, November 2, 2012. G. Liebmann, “Switzerland in America,” Gazette Newspapers, November 2, 2012. G. Liebmann, “Marylanders Get a Taste of Veto Democracy,” Baltimore Sun, October 30, 2012 G. Liebmann, “Culture Wars and History,” Consevative Battleline Online, October 10, 2012 G. Liebmann,”Maryland is Number One in Education Centralization, Baltimore Sun, September 24, 2012 “Baltimore’s Cash Crunch,” foxbaltimore.com/newsroom/features/cover_story/videos/vid_807.shtml, Septemberv 19, 2012 R. Kasper, Baltimore Beer: A Satisfying History of Charm City Brewing (History Press, 2012),151. G. Liebmann, “Federalism and Obamacare,” Conservative Battleline Online, July 25, 2012
D. Devine. “Conservative Law and Order,” Conservative Battleline Online, July 25, 2012. Editorial, “Prudence and Public Pensions,” Baltimore Sun, July 20,2012 M. Dresser, “State Pension Board Faces Tough Investment Expectation,” Baltimore Sun, July 17, 2012, A2
R. Kinderline, “Pension Criticism Misses the Target,” Baltimore Sun, July 16, 2012. Random Calvert ExpertDr. Don AveryChairman, Department of History Harford Community College Secretary of the Chesapeake branch of the Historical Society, a national organization challenging the American Historical Association on issues of political correctness in historical interpretation. Speaks often to various civil-rights, student, senior-citizen and church groups. Former president of Baltimore branch of the National Association of Scholars. |