Public School Board Members for School Choice

  • February 15, 2011

HARRISBURG, PA (02.15.2011) – As children continue to be trapped in failing schools, despite massive increases in taxpayer funding, public school board members-past and present-are forming “Public School Board Members…

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Education

The Constitutionality of School Choice

  • February 15, 2011

Despite Pennsylvania taxpayers spending $26 billion annually on public schools and more per student than 39 other states ($13,000 per child); and despite a decreasing student enrollment of nearly…

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Regulation

Impacts of Liquor Privatization

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 14, 2011

Remarks by Nathan Benefield, Director of Policy Research, Commonwealth Foundation Good afternoon. I am Nathan Benefield, Director of Policy Research for the Commonwealth Foundation. We are a nonprofit, independent public…

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Taxes & Economy

Hanger: Gas Fracking is Safe

  • February 11, 2011

John Hanger, who just departed with Gov. Ed Rendell as his Secretary of Environmental Protection, recently gave an exit interview to the anti-natural gas,…

Media

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Government Accountability

Podcast: Talking Transparency

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • February 10, 2011

In the latest The BOX podcast, Senior Fellow Jeff Coleman sits down with Representative Jim Christiana after the unanimous passage of his transparency legislation in the State House.

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The Insanity of Keeping Education Status Quo

  • February 10, 2011

In a guest opinion in today’s Lebanon Daily News, I make a case that keeping the status quo in education isn’t helping children, parents, taxpayers or teachers. Insanity? Judge…

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Taxes & Economy

Green Energy Could Lead to More Blackouts

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • February 10, 2011

Recent controlled blackouts in Houston were reportedly caused by the inability of older fossil fuel power plants to operate in unusually cold temperatures. Now proponents of green energy are…

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Education

School Daze Ends with Choice

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • February 9, 2011

If Pennsylvania's public schools are broken, why don't we just fix them? Easier said than done, of course, but it's not from a lack of trying. For decades, taxpayers, parents…

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