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Criminal Justice Reform

Corrections Home Run for Gov. Corbett?

• October 10, 2012

Under Gov. Tom Corbett’s leadership, Pennsylvania unanimously passed (Senate Bill 100) part of a landmark corrections reform package last session. SB 100, now Act 122 of 2012, aims to…

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State Budget

Gov. Corbett Earns “A” for Fiscal Firefighting

• Nathan Benefield
• October 9, 2012

Gov. Tom Corbett was one of only four governors to get an “A” in Cato Institute’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors. Corbett was joined by Govs. Sam…

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Education

How Much Do Philadelphia Schools Spend?

• Nathan Benefield
• October 9, 2012

Following Matt’s appearance on WHYY yesterday morning, we’ve received questions over our calculation on Philadelphia school district spending per student. The error was ours.  Based on the latest spending…

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Don’t fire arrows without arrowheads in corrections reforms

• October 8, 2012

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Do we really value inclusion in schools?

• October 5, 2012

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Education trigger belongs in Pennsylvania parents’ hands

• October 5, 2012

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Empowering Pa.’s parents

• October 4, 2012

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Health Care

Medicaid Expansion Bad Deal for Patients

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 3, 2012

Health care interest groups took to the press in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg to argue for expanding Medicaid in Pennsylvania, but these advocates overlook the program’s flaws and its long-term…

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Education

“Won’t Back Down” Captures Heart of Education

• Priya Brannick
• October 2, 2012

“Won’t Back Down” is a movie about education that fittingly begins and ends with a close-up of a child reading aloud. Education debates in America frequently whirl…

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Government Accountability

Oh, Great, More “Convenience”

• October 2, 2012

From the fine makers of the wine kiosk catastrophe, government-branded grapes of wrath, uncorked comedic cronyism  and wasteful wine surplus trailer parks comes “Convenience…

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Pennsylvania must pull parent trigger to save public education

• October 2, 2012

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Education

Parental Choice + Competition = Better Schools

• Nathan Benefield
• October 1, 2012

A new study of academic performance in Ohio finds that traditional public schools facing competition from charter schools experience greater gains in student learning.  In summarizing the findings, the…

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Regulation

PLCB Spills Grapes of Wrath!

• October 1, 2012

Wine Shrines, Kiosk Catastrophes and ethics investigations step aside (okay, hold that last one), the Kings of Cabernet have uncorked their latest mayhem of modernization, malfeasance and…

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LCB leaves bad taste in critics’ mouths

• September 30, 2012

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Pa. Must Pull Parent Trigger to Save Education

• September 30, 2012

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SPENCER: No excuse for a failing education system

• September 28, 2012

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Pension reform urgency grows

• September 28, 2012

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Education

Charter Expansion Would Boost Student Learning

• Nathan Benefield
• September 27, 2012

Priya wrote about the recent decline in state test scores and in the number of schools making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), noting seven facts union bosses don’t want you…

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Health Care

Saylor Broaches Biggest Budget Buster

• Elizabeth Stelle
• September 26, 2012

Pensions and transportation top the list of crises the General Assembly won’t address in their short fall session, but little has been said about the biggest budget buster facing the…

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Education

5 Fixes for Property Tax Fires

• Nathan Benefield
• September 25, 2012

Yesterday, I testified before the House Select Committee on Property Tax Reform, presenting on the best tax policy to finance government operations, and on…

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Education

Bread, Freedom and Halftime Sickles?

• September 25, 2012

Workers of the world unite at the 50-yard line?  Apparently, that’s the tune played recently at a halftime show by the New Oxford High School Marching Band whose ” St.

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