Commonwealth Foundation Promotes Jennifer Stefano to Executive V.P.

  • Michael Torres
  • November 1, 2021

November 1, 2021, Harrisburg, Pa. – Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s free-market think tank, today announces that Jennifer Stefano has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President. Her appointment took…

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Education

Philly Exodus Spells the Need for School Choice

  • Marc LeBlond
  • March 29, 2018

Philadelphia’s population is growing. In fact, Philly’s population has grown for 11 consecutive years according to the U.S. Census Bureau and highlighted recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Population growth…

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Understanding Real vs. “Sticker Price” Tuition

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 25, 2011

A common misconception in debating higher education funding is that the posted rate of tuition, or “sticker price,” is what students actually pay. This is exemplified in a commentary…

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Education

Cyber School Students Deserve Adequate Funding

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 19, 2007

Thank you, Chairman Roebuck and members of this committee for inviting us to speak today. My name is Nathan Benefield, I am the Director of Policy Research with the…

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Education

The Public Schools Edifice Complex

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 2, 2007

How much money should a school receive for a student it no longer has to educate? And, is taxpayer money being wisely spent on classroom instruction or school construction? Those…

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Education

Conservative professors face discrimination

  • January 16, 2006

Commonwealth Foundation Adjunct Scholar and Villanova University associate professor of political science Bob Maranto in the Philadelphia Inquirer on how diversity on college campuses excludes conservative academics.

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Education

Union Propaganda Can’t Hide Charter Schools’ Success

  • October 24, 2004

There they go again. Back in July 2002, during a slow news period, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a school employee labor union, issued a widely cited report "showing"…

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