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Taxpayer Funds Used to Lobby Against Educational Choice

• Jessica Barnett
• April 9, 2018

All Pennsylvania students deserve quality educations. For kids with unmet educational needs, Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) provide access to the opportunities many of their peers already enjoy. Yet, instead…

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Some Clarity on Education Savings Accounts

• Marc LeBlond
• March 13, 2018

The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) continues to repeat common misconceptions about Education Savings Account (ESA) programs. Here are six facts to dispel their fallacies. 1. School Choice Improves Academic…

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PSBA Chooses Scores Over Kids

• Nathan Benefield
• September 5, 2012

Yesterday, Priya posted on how a Philadelphia area family faces criminal charges for trying to put their child in a better school, while demand for Pennsylvania’s new Opportunity Scholarship…

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Educrats Fight for System Not Kids, Taxpayers

• December 7, 2011

The Sharon Herald posted an article Sunday about anti-voucher signs popping up around the Sharon, Sharpsville and Greenville areas in Mercer County.  I’ve seen these signs in Western Pa.

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Taxpayer-Funded Lobbyists’ Survey Contradicts Real Polls

• Nathan Benefield
• October 6, 2011

The Pennsylvania School Boards Association has released a new “survey” claiming that state residents oppose plans to provide vouchers to students. The PSBA’s funding comes from taxpayers through school…

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Saving Our School Boards

• Matthew Brouillette
• May 17, 2011

Schools must be able to furlough teachers based on a broad-based assessment of student needs, not a last-in/first-out requirement that ignores teachers' classroom performance, ability to connect with students, grasp…

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School Choice: Questions & Answers

• February 17, 2011

The Pennsylvania School Board Association is circulating "Questions about vouchers your legislator should be asking." Others have legitimate questions and concerns.  This Policy Brief answers them all.

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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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PSBA’s Web of Lies on School Vouchers

• Nathan Benefield
• January 21, 2011

The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA), in a desperate attempt to preserve the status quo in education, has launched a new portal, VoucherWatch. Of the many pieces of misinformation…

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