Education

Want to Help PA’s Kids?

January 19, 2012

With the 10-year anniversary of No Child Left Behind recently passing, the $20.7 million bailout for Chester-Upland School District, and students in Neshaminy sitting at home while…

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Frothing Frackaphobes Fermenting Fear

January 18, 2012

Courtesy of John Micek’s daily must-read blog Capitol Ideas comes a post on an Esquire magazine article articulating the latest lunacy foisted by phobic fracking fact foes furiously fomenting…

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Education

Ponderous PSEA, Virulent Violence Verified

Priya Brannick
January 18, 2012

Last December, the Commonwealth Foundation urged lawmakers to offer kids in Pennsylvania’s worst violent, failing schools a lifeline, and give them school choice for Christmas. We delivered bouquets of 17…

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Taxes & Economy

Will Anti-Gas Political Climate Prevent 10,000 Jobs?

January 17, 2012

U.S. Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey, along with Gov. Tom Corbett, have been lobbying for Shell to invest their petroleum chemistry plant, known as a “cracker”…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Time for Pennsylvania to Get Right on Crime

January 17, 2012

Last week on NPR, former U.S. Attorney General and Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh joined Adam Gelb, director for Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, to discuss criminal justice…

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Pa. has proposal on prevailing wage reforms

January 17, 2012

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Education

Bring Choice to Chester-Upland

Priya Brannick
January 16, 2012

Chester-Upland, a chronically failing and bankrupt school district of 3,700 students in Delaware County, last week filed a federal suit against the commonwealth to demand a $20.7 million bailout…

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Education

The Education Monopoly Comandeers CNN

Elizabeth Stelle
January 16, 2012

The Reading School District was featured on CNN this weekend, but not for anything positive. Reporters documented the poor air quality caused by crumbling school buildings across the nation.

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Education

Crisis vs. Competition in Education

Priya Brannick
January 12, 2012

Here are two views on school choice, the idea that fostering a variety of schooling options for families—whether public, charter, cyber or private—is a good thing: School choice is a…

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