Education

Pittsburgh-Area Family Punished for Choosing Charter School

  • James Paul
  • August 29, 2016

Fauna Shaffer Butera, mother of two young boys just miles to the northwest of Pittsburgh, opted to enroll her sons in Young Scholars Charter School. She was shocked to learn of the…

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State Budget

More Victims of Devastating New Tax Speak Out

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • August 15, 2016

Amy Crivella was addicted to cigarettes. She tried everything—gum, patches, going cold turkey—but nothing worked. Then, she tried e-cigarettes, or vaping, and she didn’t need a cigarette for the first time…

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Government Accountability

Local School District Leads the Way on Transparency

  • June 14, 2016

The Quakertown Community School Board (QCSB) is scrapping a conventional collective bargaining practice. Normally, unions and public employers don’t reveal the details of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) until after…

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Public Union Democracy

Pennsylvania’s Ghost Teachers

  • June 3, 2016

Collective bargaining agreements in many Pennsylvania school districts permit school employees to take a full-time leave of absence from the classroom to perform union work. While on leave doing union work,…

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Government Accountability

Campaign for Contract Transparency Continues

  • May 20, 2016

CF has written at length about the lack of collective bargaining transparency in Pennsylvania’s school districts. Generally, school boards refuse to reveal the details of a…

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Regulation

Time to End Corporate Welfare Handouts

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 27, 2016

Conservatives loathe government handouts. Liberals denounce special favors to corporations. One thing can unify these two sides: ending Pennsylvania’s budget-busting corporate welfare handouts.

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Regulation

How Ridesharing Helps the Poor and Disabled

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 22, 2016

Earlier this week, I used Uber to get a ride in downtown Philadelphia. Curious, I asked my driver how long he’d been driving for Uber. “Two years,” he told me,…

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Education

Wolf’s Cockamamie Concoction

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 6, 2016

Matt Brouillette pointed out in his latest commentary that Gov. Wolf  is taking a “lone-wolf” approach to governing. The latest example is his unilateral action to distribute school funding…

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Energy

Governor Wolf’s Natural Gas Tax Proposal

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • March 2, 2016

Governor Wolf continues to press for a natural gas severance tax despite ongoing layoffs and potential bankruptcies in the natural gas industry.

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