A Big Week for School Choice

  • Common Sense Weekly
  • May 7, 2025

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Education

PASS/Lifeline Scholarship Program

  • May 5, 2025

Overview Two proposals—Senate Bill 10, the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success Scholarship Program (PASS), and forthcoming Lifeline Scholarship legislation in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives—are separate but similar…

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Shapiro’s Plan to Double Electric Bills

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  • May 2, 2025

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Is Shapiro More Ambitious Than Loyal?

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  • April 30, 2025

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State Budget

EITC and Economically Disadvantaged Schools

  • Rachel Langan
  • April 30, 2025

Summary The Economically Disadvantaged School (EDS) component of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) scholarship program provides supplementary scholarships for Pennsylvania students, who are economically disadvantaged and attend private schools…

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Regulation

How To Make Pennsylvania Manufacturing Boom

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • April 29, 2025

Originally published by RealClearPennsylvania. President Donald Trump and Gov. Josh Shapiro can agree on one thing: Pennsylvania needs a manufacturing boom. Political talk and regulatory action, however, are two different…

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Shapiro ‘Price Cap’ Could Hike Electricity Bills

  • Gordon Tomb
  • April 28, 2025

Originally published by Delaware Valley Journal. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal to cap electricity prices could, perversely, lead to higher customer bills and a greater risk of blackouts, according to America’s…

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What Swing Voters Think of Shapiro

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  • April 23, 2025

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