Health Care
No Easy Pass This Year on Cost Overruns
Legislators are questioning the administration's chronic overspending habit, but they aren't getting many answers.
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Lawmakers Send Message to Wolf on Eve of Budget Address
February 3, 2020, Harrisburg, Pa. — Today, on the eve of Gov. Wolf’s sixth state budget address, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a much-needed fiscal reform called the…
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CF Responds to Pa. House Speaker Mike Turzai’s Retirement
January 23, 2020, Harrisburg, Pa.—Today, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Mike Turzai announced he will not seek reelection at the end of his term. Turzai, an outspoken…
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Thousands of Scholarship Applications Denied, Again
Pennsylvania's tax credit scholarship programs, EITC (Education Improvement Tax Credit) and OSTC (Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit), have transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of students with a private education that…
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House Sends Major School Choice Expansion Bill to Senate
May 7, 2019, Harrisburg, Pa.—Today, in a bipartisan vote, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed HB 800, a school choice bill that promises opportunity to thousands of students trapped…
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State Rep. Stephen Bloom to Join Commonwealth Foundation as Vice President
July 17, 2018, Harrisburg, Pa.—Today, the Commonwealth Foundation is pleased to announce that state Rep. Stephen Bloom will join the organization as vice president in December after his term’s conclusion.
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Lawmakers’ Choices: Higher Taxes or Real Reform
Half the state budget is done: the spending list. The Pennsylvania House and Senate passed a general appropriations bill on Friday. But the other half—how to pay for it—remains. The…
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Choice is a Win for Students
In the aftermath of Betsy DeVos’s confirmation as Secretary of Education, opponents beleive the sky is falling on public education. DeVos is a well-known school choice advocate who believes in…
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Choice is a Win for Students
In the aftermath of Betsy DeVos’s confirmation as Secretary of Education, opponents beleive the sky is falling on public education. DeVos is a well-known school choice advocate who believes in…
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