Education

The Economic Cost of Education Failure

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • November 1, 2011

If you don’t have a child in a failing school, you may think that SB 1 and the education reforms it contains are of no benefit to you. Think again.

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Education

Teacher Evaluations in DC Help Teachers and Students

  • Priya Brannick
  • November 1, 2011

After three years, Washington D.C.’s IMPACT evaluation system for teachers is improving teacher performance and benefiting students. The results (reported by Democrats for Education Reform) are noteworthy for…

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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.

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Taxes & Economy

State Energy Mandates Cost up to $440 million

  • October 28, 2011

A new study by Penn State scholars found Pennsylvania’s alternative energy mandates will cost taxpayers up to $60 million next year and up to $440 million in ten years.

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Energy

Marcellus Shale Impact Fee

  • October 28, 2011

Companies should pay for the cost of government they use.  Many advocates of a new tax simply want more money for Harrisburg politicians to dole out.

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Taxes & Economy

PA’s High Unemployment Taxes

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • October 28, 2011

Pennsylvania employers pay some of the highest unemployment insurance taxes in the nation, according to a new study by the Tax Foundation. Tax rates vary based on the frequency of layoffs.

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Taxes & Economy

100,000+ Improperly Get Pa. Med Benefits

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • October 27, 2011

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare testified that hundreds of thousands of individuals were improperly receiving Medicaid, taxpayer-funded health care for the poor and the disabled. Capitolwire writes:…

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Government Accountability

Government Unions Steal Worker Freedom

  • Priya Brannick
  • October 27, 2011

Pennsylvania is one of 28 states in which workers can be compelled to give part of their paycheck to a union just to keep their job.  Moreover, even non-membership is…

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Government Accountability

Pennsylvania’s Government Unions

  • October 27, 2011

Pennsylvania is a forced union state, meaning that workers can be forced to join a union or pay a "fair share fee" just to keep their job.  Most government units…

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