Education

Establishment Continues to Attack Cyber Schools

• Nathan Benefield
• March 18, 2010

At a hearing yesterday, Pennsylvania School Boards Association touted additional proposals to cut off funding for cyber charter schools. One of these proposals would be that cyber schools would…

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Pennsylvania School Boards Want Less Government

• March 4, 2009

The Pennsylvania School Board Association (PSBA) is tired of amassing unfunded regulations from state legislators that grow school bureaucracies instead of improving education. In response, the PSBA has proposed legislation…

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Renewing the Call for Pension Refom

• Nathan Benefield
• November 26, 2008

Deb Erdley has a story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on pension funds for public school employees and state workers, in light of a PSBA plan for reform, recent losses…

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Answers to Attacks on Cyber Schools

• Nathan Benefield
• April 17, 2008

One of our loyal readers asked for some help responding to attacks on Cyber School Funding and a lobbying effort by Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) in support of HB…

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PSBA Property Tax Reform Blueprint

• Nathan Benefield
• May 21, 2007

The PSBA unveiled its Blueprint for Comprehensive Local Tax Reform, which has some good ideas, some misguided notions, and some bad ideas. The Good:1. Create a state funding…

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PSBA takes issue with my referendum commentary

• March 26, 2006

Equal time was given to Tim Allwein of the PA School Boards Association to offer a rebutal to my commentary in last Sunday’s Patriot-News. Fair game. It should…

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PSBA: “Limit School Spending for Cyber Schools”

• Nathan Benefield
• January 17, 2006

The Pennsylvania School Board Association has finally come to agree that school spending should be limited to what it actually costs to educate a child: Patriot News – Districts…

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