We compute the Chow groups and the Fulton-MacPherson operational Chow cohomology ring for a class of singular rational varieties including toric varieties. The computation is closely related to the weight filtration on the ordinary cohomology of these varieties. We use the computation to answer one of the open problems about operational Chow cohomology: it does not have a natural map to ordinary cohomology.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14C15 (primary); 14F42, 14M20 (secondary) In 1995, Fulton, MacPherson, Sottile, and Sturmfels [13] succeeded in computing the Chow group C H * X of algebraic cycles and the 'operational' Chow cohomology ring A * X [12] for a class of singular algebraic varieties. The varieties they consider are those which admit a solvable group action with finitely many orbits; this includes toric varieties and Schubert varieties. In this paper, we generalize their theorem that A i X ∼ = Hom(C H i X, Z) to the broader class of linear schemes X , as defined below. We compute explicitly the Chow groups and the weight-graded pieces of the rational homology of those linear schemes which are finite disjoint unions of pieces isomorphic to (G m ) a × A b for some a, b. We show that the Chow groups ⊗Q of any linear scheme map isomorphically to the lowest subspace in the weight filtration of rational homology. Finally, we find some special properties of toric varieties (splitting of the weight filtration on their rational homology and existence of a map A i X ⊗ Q → H 2i (X, Q) with good