by Jane Richey | Dec 17, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
ARE MOST Pennsylvania school districts fooling Pennsylvania taxpayers? Are they hoarding money while annually seeking more while poorer districts, including Philly’s, operate in crisis? Well, there’s an interesting line in Gov. Corbett’s recent...
by Jane Richey | Nov 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
If Americans under the age of 18 were required as a group to pay off the entirety of the federal government’s debt in equal shares, each would now need to pay about $218,676. That is more than the $130,468 average price tag for four years at a private college or the...
by Jane Richey | Nov 1, 2012 | Politics
The charter school movement associated with Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is under federal investigation. If one believes that the battle for the nation’s soul is occurring, not just in Washington, D.C., but in schools across the nation, the steady advance of...
by Jane Richey | May 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In fiscal year 2011, Harvard University’s tax-exempt endowment jumped in value by about $4.17 billion, rising from $27,557,404,000 to $31,728,080,000–but that did not stop Harvard from collecting tuition and fees derived from federal grants and student loans...
by Jane Richey | Apr 30, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
With trivial exceptions, Washington does not run schools, employ teachers, buy textbooks, write curriculum, hand out diplomas, or decide who gets promoted to 5th grade. Historically, it has contributed less than 10 percent of national K-12 spending. So its influence...