Education
The Urgent Need for Tax Credit Scholarships
Pennsylvania’s tax credit scholarship programs have helped many students, but thousands of students are turned away each year. Senate Bill 1204 would end the supply problem by allowing tax credit…
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EITC In Context
Pennsylvania’s Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) provide tax credit scholarships to low and moderate-income students. These scholarships are lifelines for tens of…
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Education Spending Trends 2016-17
$4.5 billion—that's the collective balance in Pennsylvania school district reserve funds. Reserve balances are at an all-time high and hold enough money to cut every Pennsylvania student a $2,860 check,…
Fact Sheet
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Scholarship Organizations Bring Educational Freedom to Thousands
Pennsylvania’s tax credit scholarship programs are lifelines for thousands of children around the state. At best, these children would be stuck in schools that aren’t meeting their education needs. At…
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Education Choice Saves Tax Dollars
Transparency in education funding and charter school reform are good ideas, yet this push for reform is being used to spread misinformation about educational opportunities. Namely, the idea that…
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Reading Schools Stop Paying Ghost Teachers
Since 2011, Reading taxpayers have spent over $500,000 subsidizing the salaries of local teachers’ union officials. Finally, this unfair arrangement will end. In a practice known as “ghost teaching,”…
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Meet Emily Jae
Emily Jae is the Commonwealth Foundation’s director of entrepreneur engagement in southeastern Pennsylvania. Recently, Emily sat down with Commonwealth Sense to talk about her journey to CF, love of Philadelphia,…
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Meet Emily Jae
Emily Jae is the Commonwealth Foundation’s director of entrepreneur engagement in southeastern Pennsylvania. Recently, Emily sat down with Commonwealth Sense to talk about her journey to CF, love of Philadelphia,…
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The Call for Contract Transparency Continues
An ABC27 special investigation asks a simple question: “Would you pay a bill before you saw it?” Most people would answer with a resounding no. Yet, as the report highlights, that’s exactly…
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