Public Union Democracy

Why Pennsylvania Needs Wisconsin-Style Government Union Reform

• Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
• February 24, 2022

Key Findings Government unions have enormous political power in Pennsylvania, due to a host of special legal privileges granted in state law.Government union executives use this power to trap government…

Report

State Budget

Five Takeaways from Gov. Wolf’s Budget

• February 8, 2022

February 8, 2022, Harrisburg, Pa. — In his final budget address Tuesday, Gov. Tom Wolf proposed an unaffordable spending increase while claiming the mantle of fiscal responsibility. Commonwealth Foundation Senior…

Press Release

Education

Op-Ed: School Choice Is the Fix for Pennsylvania’s Broken Education System

• Colleen Hroncich, Stefanie Mason
• December 1, 2021

Pennsylvania’s public education system is broken, according to a lawyer in the historic education-funding lawsuit currently underway in the state’s Commonwealth Court.

Commentary

Op-Ed: Michigan’s governor should follow Pennsylvania’s on school choice expansions

• Marc LeBlond
• October 23, 2021

If Wolf, who has demonstrated allegiance to teacher unions, can sign massive school choice expansions in Pennsylvania, other governors including Whitmer should as well. Kids need it. Parents want it.

Commentary

Op-Ed: Schools shouldn’t be political battlegrounds. Let’s make peace through educational choice

• Stephen Bloom
• October 1, 2021

School choice policies allow some of the funding used to educate a child to follow that child to the family’s school of choice.

Commentary

Op-Ed: How Right-Leaning Entrepreneurs Became the Champions of Equity for Low-Income Students

• Jennifer Stefano
• September 18, 2021

Originally published at Townhall There is no doubt that free-market enthusiasts—armed with a love of competition and individual liberty—have a successful track record of leading on traditionally progressive issues.

Media

Education

Concentrating Resources on Failing Systems Instead of Students

• Stefanie Mason
• July 20, 2021

The 2021-22 budget has the largest state education funding increase in Pennsylvania history despite public schools receiving over $6.2 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds. The funding increase includes a…

Fact Sheet

Fox News: Ideology Vs Education in America’s Schools

• July 14, 2021

Jennifer Stefano’s latest piece in The Federalist—I Might Pull My Kids From Public School This Fall For Teaching Them Racism—spurred national news coverage about curriculum taught in public schools.

Media

My Child Was Saved by School Choice

• July 10, 2021

In April, Sharon Sedlar testified before the Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee, sharing her families’ story of school choice, and how cyber charter schools changed her daughter’s educational trajectory. This is…

Commentary