Education

Philadelphia Limits Choices for School Children

• Nathan Benefield
• May 28, 2009

Brad Vasoli has a troubling article in The Bulletin about how the Philadelphia School District is trying to limit the enrollment of charter schools in the district. District officials…

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Education

Pennsylvania’s Charter School Law

• Nathan Benefield
• March 16, 2009

Testimony of Nathan A. Benefield to the Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee, March 12, 2009 Good afternoon.  I am Nathan Benefield, Director of Policy Research for the Commonwealth Foundation.  We…

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Education

Good day for school choice in PA

• Nathan Benefield
• January 24, 2008

The Commonwealth Court ruled that Chester-Upland school district could not limit the number of students enrolling in charter schools. Read the Philadelphia Inquirer story. About 40% of Chester-Upland student…

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Another distortion of charter schools’ “Cost”

• Nathan Benefield
• August 9, 2007

Jim McCaffrey’s article in the Evening Bulletin continues the assault that charter schools “cost too much”. Yet this is a distortion of the truth. School districts continue to complain…

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Attacking Charter Schools

• Nathan Benefield
• May 1, 2007

This Philadelphia Inquirer article about the Chester-Upland school district’s proposed cap on charter school enrollment was brought to my attention. I now found that they did vote to…

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