State Budget

2017-18 State Budget & Spending Trends

• Elizabeth Stelle
• November 26, 2018

Over the next month, CF will recount what happened on major issues in the 2017-18 legislative session and what policies lawmakers need to prioritize in the 2019-20 session to make…

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Education

Fact Sheet: School Funding and Student Outcomes

• November 9, 2018

Conversations about improving education often devolve into who will spend more. This enables some policymakers to offer a one-dimensional solution—funding—to a multi-dimensional issue—education. Key questions are ignored when the only…

Fact Sheet

Pennsylvania’s Report Card: 2018 PSSA and Keystone Exams

• Marc LeBlond
• October 25, 2018

On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Education released the 2018 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) and Keystone Exam results. Both sets of exams are used to ensure Pennsylvania’s education system is meeting …

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Education

Will School Choice Reach the Supreme Court Next Year?

• October 24, 2018

Annie Jackson, a waitress at Roxy’s Café in downtown Harrisburg, knows firsthand why families need school choice. Annie waitressed eight months into her pregnancy to pay private school tuition for…

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Education

Pennsylvania’s Opportunity Gap

• Marc LeBlond
• October 22, 2018

As highlighted in a recent CF report, 50 percent of student tax credit scholarship applications since 2012 have been denied due to program limits. “In 2016-17 alone, almost…

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Health Care

Wolf Vetoes Opportunity for Healthy Adults to Escape Poverty

• October 19, 2018

October 19, 2018, Harrisburg, Pa.—Late this afternoon, Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed HB 2138, a bold anti-poverty bill aimed at helping Pennsylvanians achieve independence. The legislation would have incentivized healthy,…

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Health Care

Pa. Legislature Sends Landmark Anti-Poverty Reform to Gov. Wolf

• October 18, 2018

October 17, 2018, Harrisburg, Pa.—Today, the Pennsylvania Legislature sent a landmark anti-poverty bill to Governor Wolf’s desk. HB 2138 will help healthy, childless adults enrolled in Medicaid move from…

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Regulation

Corporate Welfare: A Bad Deal for Pennsylvanians

• October 17, 2018

Hanover company WNS closed its doors for good at the end of September, putting 107 men and women out of work. This news comes just two years after Governor…

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Education

Education Funding Principles

• Marc LeBlond
• October 4, 2018

With mid-term elections nearing, both candidates for governor are wrestling with how to create a better education system, including a more equitable funding system. Here are five principles any education…

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