Education

Send a Lifeline to Kids in Failing Schools

• June 20, 2011

More than 106,000 children are enrolled in the 144 public schools comprising Pennsylvania’s lowest performing 5 percent on student proficiency. These schools reported more than 5,400 violent incidents…

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Pa. unemployment benefits deal won’t address debt

• June 20, 2011

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Education

Children Can’t Wait for PSEA to “Fix” Violent, Failing Schools

• Matthew Brouillette
• June 16, 2011

The PSEA sent a memo to the House of Representatives discouraging legislators from sponsoring legislation that would throw lifelines to children in violent, failing schools. I also sent the following…

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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…

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Education

New Video: Lifeline – Rescuing Kids When Schools Fail

• Elizabeth Stelle
• June 15, 2011

In 2009, students trapped in our worst performing public schools endured seven rapes, 163 robberies, and two official riots. Those simple—and terrifying—facts haven’t been a big enough part of the…

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Regulation

Not Paying Pension Bills Hurts our Grandkids

• Richard Dreyfuss
• June 15, 2011

Politicians last year passed their version of pension reform by deferring existing unfunded liabilities, making them even more unaffordable. The situation was so severe that they felt compelled to include…

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Public Union Democracy

Shippensburg Asks for Prevailing Wage Relief

• Nathan Benefield
• June 14, 2011

Shippensburg Borough Council recently passed a resolution asking for state relief from prevailing wage mandates. Prevailing wage mandates were imposed 50 years ago in Pennsylvania, following federal Davis-Bacon Act…

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State Budget

Unemployment Compensation Reform on Tap

• Elizabeth Stelle
• June 13, 2011

This week, the House is expected to take up SB 1030, which would change Unemployment Compensation guidelines to ensured continue benefits for about 45,000 Pennsylvanians and help bring the…

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Taxes & Economy

Fracking Friday

• Nathan Benefield
• June 10, 2011

There are several good articles and studies worth reading on natural gas drilling, Marcellus Shale and fracking: Katrina’s commentary on the local impact of natural gas drilling appears in today’s…

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