Education

2025 State of Education Spending in Pennsylvania

• January 22, 2025

Overview The national trends impacting education in Pennsylvania in 2025 include an impending fiscal cliff, under-enrolled schools, and population decline, all of which lead to school closures…

Backgrounder

Criminal Justice Reform

Can Criminal Justice Reform Unite America?

• Charles Mitchell
• February 5, 2019

The following op-ed first appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Are partisan division and political bickering unavoidable in American politics? The headlines make it seem so, but it’s not true.

Media

Safe and Smart: Tearing Down Obstacles to Work

• September 27, 2018

What does Pennsylvania gain from putting up more barriers to work for people getting out of prison? Making the comeback from a criminal conviction to rejoining the community is hard…

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