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Op-Ed: Covid didn’t “break” parents

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 10, 2021

Few things are more sickening than the realization that something you disagree with will happen to your child and there is nothing you can do about it.

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Op-Ed: A lawyer made COVID policy for Bucks County schools

• Kevin Mooney
• October 6, 2021

Bucks County public education officials chose to ignore local health authorities and instead followed a well-connected lawyer.

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The Vince Coglianese Show – Jennifer Stefano – 10.01.21

• Jennifer Stefano (Author)
• October 1, 2021

Vince Coglianese speaks with Jennifer Stefano, a Fellow at the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) and the Vice President of the Commonwealth Foundation.

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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.

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Op-Ed: Pa. lawmakers can end educational chaos by passing HB 1

• Nathan Benefield
• September 30, 2021

Educational choice policies like those in the Excellent Education for all Act (House Bill 1) empower parents.

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Op-Ed: While progressive leaders eat cake, their constituents suffer

• Jennifer Stefano
• September 27, 2021

A picture is worth a thousand words — maybe even 300,000, which was the dollar cost for a table at the Met Gala this year.

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Energy

Op-Ed: Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: No Discernable Benefits

• Kevin Mooney
• September 10, 2021

What happens next in Pennsylvania’s legal and legislative battles over proposed climate change regulations will largely depend on who controls the narrative about carbon dioxide emissions and their impact.

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Op-Ed: Main Line Madness

• Michael Torres
• September 1, 2021

Parents across the country are engaging with their schools’ embrace of critical racial pedagogy, but in progressive locales like Lower Merion, pushback requires organization and cooperation among those who want…

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Op-Ed: Back-to-School Season in Pennsylvania Defined by Conflict

• Colleen Hroncich
• August 31, 2021

Amid new and recycled policies surrounding the COVID-19 Delta variant, batteles with local public school bureaucracies are intensifying.     …

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Energy

Op-Ed: Climate Regulations Reach Critical Turning Point in Pennsylvania

• Kevin Mooney
• August 29, 2021

September…

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Op-Ed: Limited government can make a comeback

• Nathan Benefield
• August 28, 2021

For advocates of limited government, it’s easy to feel like the fight is over and the country is on the path to fiscal ruin. But such pessimism is unwarranted.

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Op-Ed: Teacher Sues Union That Demands He Pay Dues For Almost A Year After He Resigned

• Kevin Mooney
• August 18, 2021

A Pennsylvania teachers union argues that a teacher who resigned his union membership should pay 'fair-share fees' for the entire year, even though he resigned only a few months in.

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Energy

Op-Ed: Young Pennsylvanians want to fight climate change. Our leaders want to pretend they are.

• August 16, 2021

Governor Wolf’s push to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is more about appearances than real change. It’s time for Pennsylvania to instate policy that helps the environment, boosts revenue,…

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Op-Ed: Pennsylvanians deserve maximum wages, not harmful minimum wage mandates

• Stephen Bloom
• August 16, 2021

Instead of making workers dependent upon politics for a raise, the government should clear the path for our local economies to grow. This approach to prosperity is real and long-lasting—and…

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Energy

Op-Ed: Wolf climate change plan will kill Pa. jobs

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 12, 2021

Joining RGGI will hurt our economy. States that participate in the RGGI have seen major decreases in goods manufacturing (down 8.6% from 2007 to 2019) thanks to rising energy costs.

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Op-Ed: Lawsuit claiming Pennsylvania has unequal school funding is misguided

• Jennifer Stefano
• July 28, 2021

If Pennsylvania’s education system prioritized families over bureaucracy, we’d never have to worry about “wealthy” and “poor” districts — or baseless lawsuits — again.

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Op-Ed: Limited Government Can Make a Comeback in Pandemic Era

• Nathan Benefield
• July 27, 2021

States like Pennsylvania are also pushing against unbridled gubernatorial powers. In the past, Republicans and Democrats criticized executive overreach when the opposing party was in power. Both parties, however, rarely…

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Energy

Op-Ed: In Pennsylvania, Scientific and Economic Realities Unsettle Climate Change Morality Plays

• Kevin Mooney
• July 21, 2021

As the economic, legal, and scientific arguments against RGGI continue to gain traction, the fallback position for Wolf is to posture as an advocate for children who will supposedly be…

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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…

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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…

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Standing Up for Students: Jamie Walker

• July 9, 2021

Jamie Walker didn’t mean to become an activist, but now that she’s gotten a taste of what an informed and involved citizen can do, she isn’t ready to stop. Her…

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