Education

Edifice Complex: Where Has All the Money Gone?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 26, 2007

From the 1986-87 to 2005-06 school years, taxpayer spending on Pennsylvania’s government-run K-12 schools increased from $6.6 billion to almost $22 billion—a 72% increase after adjusting for inflation. Between…

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Cyber schools and public schools

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 25, 2007

A version of our commentary on public cyber schools ran in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. On the same theme is a letter to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review on an…

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Financial Impact of Public Charter Schools

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 23, 2007

Report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools looks at the fiscal impact of charter schools and the myths propogated by school districts. Among their conclusions: Districts get…

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Another Anti-Cyber Assault by School Boards

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 19, 2007

School boards continue to attack public cyber schools and call for limiting their spending (you never hear anyone calling for school districts to limit their spending) in the Pittsburgh…

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Edifice Complex at Central Dauphin?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 17, 2007

Yesterday we released a report titled The Edifice Complex, which looks at school district spending (as well as contrasting that with cyber schools), finding that school districts suffer from…

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