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Senate Education Committee Approves Bipartisan PASS Scholarships, Offering Lifeline to Students in Need
Harrisburg, Pa., May 6, 2025—Today, the Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee approved legislation to establish Pennsylvania Award for Student Success (PASS) Scholarships. Similar to the popular Lifeline Scholarship proposal, PASS would…
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New Report: Gig-Workers Prefer Flexibility of Portable Benefits
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Andrew Lewis on ‘This Week in Pennsylvania’
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Stephen Bloom joins RJ Harris in the Morning to Talk Tax Reform
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Politics Threatens Progress in Pittsburgh
Results from Pittsburgh’s new teacher evaluation system were unveiled today, identifying both excellent teachers and those that need improvement. The goal of this new evaluation system is to allow the…
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Union Lobbyists Not Interested in Solving Pension Crisis
My latest letter to the editor in the Phoenix Reporter and Item corrects the record, noting that government union leaders have for years denied a pension crisis, supported underfunded pensions for…
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Second time’s the charm? W-B Area joins renewed funding fight
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Decisions in early 2000s created pension woes for Penn-Trafford schools
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A Fair Funding Formula: School Choice
Although it doesn’t fit the popular narrative of cash-starved school districts, spending on education is at an all-time high. The Pennsylvania Department of Education budget reached $11.2 billion in FY…
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The Government Union Billion Dollar Tax Hike
In 2012, Americans paid more in taxes than they did for food, clothing and shelter combined. In Pennsylvania, residents labor under the 10th highest tax burden in the…
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Students Win over Seniority Laws
Big news out of California, where a state judge struck down that state’s teacher seniority and tenure laws. The lawsuit was filed by 9 students who believed that…
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An Inconvenient Truth: School Spending & Revenue at All-Time Highs
For Immediate Release Commonwealth Foundation Contact: 717-671-1901 Contrary to Cries of Desperation, District Revenue & Spending are at All-Time Highs Spending on Salaries Dwarfed by Pension Costs…
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Survey of school districts says property taxes likely to keep rising
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LETTER: Check the facts about teachers’ union dues
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John K. Manna: Lagging revenues create budget woes
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Paycheck protection measure is a matter of principle
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CF, Teachers & Taxpayers Speak Up for Paycheck Protection
CF President Matt Brouillette, Keith Williams and Kristi Lacroix—two public school teachers—along with a host of good government and business groups testified yesterday before a House committee in favor of…
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Union Leaders Lie to Lawmakers
While public school teachers, taxpayer advocates and business leaders supporting paycheck protection answered pointed questions yesterday from lawmakers, government union executives refused to attend the House…
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Union Executives Refuse to Answer Lawmakers’ Questions
For Immediate Release Commonwealth Foundation Contact: 717-6971-1901 Union Executives Refuse to Answer Lawmakers’ Questions Provides Deceptive Testimony June 6, 2014, Philadelphia, Pa – While public…
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Claiming principle, Pa. lawmakers clash over $100 expense
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Paycheck Protection Hits the Airwaves
What would you do if the government spent your tax dollars to promote politics you disagreed with? In Pennsylvania, that’s exactly what’s happening, and it is the subject of our…
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Paycheck Protection Supporters Rally at the Capitol
Yesterday, hundreds of concerned citizens packed the Capitol rotunda to voice their support for paycheck protection legislation. Watch TV reports from ABC27 and CBS21 to see the impressive…
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The Case for Paycheck Protection
Thank you Chairman Metcalfe and members of the committee for the opportunity to testify on the policy question of whether or not Pennsylvania should continue to allow one special interest…
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