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…

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Education

Success Makes School Choice Take Top Priority

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 11, 2011

Senators Jeffrey Piccola and Anthony Williams announced The Opportunity Scholarship Act, which expands school choice in Pennsylvania by creating a voucher program for low-income students and increases the state’s…

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Education

PSEA Up to Their Old Tricks

  • November 30, 2010

I’ve dealt with teachers’ unions for a lot of years in a lot of states in my on-going efforts to bring greater educational options to students and parents, and one…

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Regulation

Pension “Reform” Goes to Gov. Rendell

  • November 15, 2010

HARRISBURG, PA — The Commonwealth Foundation expressed disappointment with today’s passage of House Bill 2497, which defers significant pension costs on to…

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Regulation

The Politics of Pensions: Why the Taxpayers Lose

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • November 14, 2010

On Friday’s conference call regarding HB 2497, the Union Pension Bailout Bill (because it bails out the union from real pension reform), someone asked why there were so few…

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Public Union Democracy

School Union Continues to Deceive Its Members

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 12, 2010

Matt wrote earlier about the millions of dollars public sector unions have poured in political campaigns to get their union pension bailout.

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Regulation

Union Campaign Cash for HB 2497

  • Matthew Brouillette, Nathan Benefield
  • November 12, 2010

Who is not aware that the natural gas industry gave tons of campaign cash to elected officials in PA? Very few, as the media loved to tell that story…

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If Teachers Only Knew…

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • November 12, 2010

I know teachers. I used to be one, in fact. And I know that no teacher would knowingly steal from his kids and grandkids. That's why I am appalled that…

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