State Budget

CF Applauds Pa. Senate Budget Use of TPA Index

• May 8, 2012

HARRISBURG, PA (05.08.12) – The Commonwealth Foundation applauded Pennsylvania Senate leadership today for using the Taxpayer Protection Act index – inflation plus population growth – to compose their fiscal year 2012-13…

Press Release

Pennsylvania Legislative Candidate Survey 2012

• April 9, 2012

This year, Pennsylvania voters will go to the polls to elect 203 men and women to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and 25 members to the Pennsylvania Senate. To help…

Commentary

Education

Parents to Pa. House: We Need School Choice!

• October 31, 2011

Listen to the lives and pleas of three parents with children trapped in failure factories, who tell House members why school choice is their only way out, their only hope.

Commentary

Education

How Taxpayers are Funding Big Labor’s Education Failures

• Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
• June 16, 2011

More than $92 million in taxpayer dollars for public education is being funneled through school districts back to these special interest groups, including the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and…

Commentary

Pennsylvania Senate unanimously passes bill to step up accountability on state vehicle usage

• May 23, 2011

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Education

Senate Passes Furlough Bill, but Keeps “Last In First Out”

• Elizabeth Stelle
• May 11, 2011

Today, the Pennsylvania Senate passed SB 612 by a 38-12 count. The bill, sponsored by Senator Folmer, would give school districts the ability to furlough teachers and other school…

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Education

School Choice Advancing in Indiana, Tennessee

• Nathan Benefield
• April 25, 2011

While the Pennsylvania Senate continues to deliberate on Senate Bill 1, school choice is moving along in several other states as well. Last…

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Education

School Choice Bill Introduced in PA House

• Nathan Benefield
• April 18, 2011

While the debate over SB 1 continues over in the Pennsylvania Senate, Rep. Tom Quigley has introduced HB 1330 in the other chamber. HB 1330 would expand the Educational…

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Regulation

Pileggi Ignores Support for Real Pension Reform

• Nathan Benefield
• November 8, 2010

Here is a letter I sent to the West Chester Daily Local, responding to a piece by state Sen. Dominic Pileggi, which argues for passing a flawed pension bill now,…

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