A Response to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association

• January 27, 2011

The Pennsylvania School Board Association has indicated that one of its main objections to SB 1 is that there is no provision in the bill that will require private…

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Education

Parents Need Choices & Control of Their Children’s Education

• Nathan Benefield
• January 26, 2011

Almost 40,000 students used an EITC scholarship last year—with an average value of $1,000—to attend a better or safer school. The average annual family income for these students was only…

Commentary

Regulation

Fixing Rendell’s Mess

• Nathan Benefield
• January 20, 2011

Penn's Woods are darker and deeper in red ink than ever before thanks to the tax-borrow-and-spend agenda of the Rendell Administration and some General Assembly members who failed to put…

Commentary

Education

The Right Thing

• Charles Mitchell
• January 18, 2011

I am infamous in the Commonwealth Foundation office and in my family for being old fashioned. There is a litany of reasons: I wear ties a lot. I even own…

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Taxes & Economy

80 Ideas for a Prosperous Pennsylvania

• January 17, 2011

Pennsylvania must undergo a rapid transformation to reverse the poor policy decisions that have eroded economic freedoms and brought the state to its present condition. To provide a roadmap for…

Report

Education

How Corbett can Balance the Budget without Raising Taxes

• Matthew Brouillette
• January 17, 2011

Even before Gov.-elect Tom Corbett raises his right hand high Tuesday swearing to tackle the problems left from the previous administration's tax-borrow-and-spend agenda, doubters are lining up to take potshots…

Commentary

Transforming Pennsylvania Policy Summit

• January 14, 2011

WHAT: Nationally renown policy experts, Pennsylvania legislators and more than 200 citizens will join in a policy debate to drive Pennsylvania to prosperity through policy transformation leading to fiscally responsible…

Press Release

Government Accountability

Are Freshmen Lawmakers Bad for State Legislatures?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• January 7, 2011

Governing magazine looks at the disadvantages to term limits, focusing on the constant turnover in state legislatures. Recognizing the inexperience of lawmakers, states like Michigan and California are setting up…

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Glad Tidings…If You Love Freedom

• Charles Mitchell
• December 24, 2010

It’s clear: The big government lovers in Pennsylvania are getting coal in their stockings. Just a few days ago, CF announced that we had already met our…

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