Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Not What I Expected: Mark Scolforo Gets It Wrong and Tom Corbett Gets It Right

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="386" caption="Graph of School Spending"][/caption]   Mark Scolforo of the Associated Press is a highly competent journalist of integrity but he has, in this case, been poisoned by the groupthink of conventional wisdom that fiscal madman and consummate phony Ed Rendell really cares about education more than he cares ...

Tom Corbett’s Winning Issue: For the Children – Not the Unions

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Government Unions or   Educating Students…. Which will we choose?   A Clear Choice on November 2d Republican Candidate for Governor Tom Corbett has taken the “NO NEW TAXES” pledge and this puts him on a collision course with government monopoly teachers’ unions. A candidate’s position on compulsory unionism will be a ...

Government Unions: Government Spending – The Defining Issue

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Government Unions vs. The Forgotten Taxpayer and Small Businessperson Government Teacher Unions v. Educating Kids We have a Clear Choice on November 2d. Tom Corbett can be Pennsylvania’s Chris Christie. Like Gov. Christie, Tom Corbett has given his personal pledged “No New Taxes” and, like Gov. Christie, left himself no alternative but ...

Republican NJ Governor Chris Christie Stands for Students and The Forgotten Taxpayer Against Big Government Unions

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

The honest and refreshing confrontational Chris Christie refuses to compromise with School Teachers’ Unions and agrees with Obama Administration’s ideas. Let’s see what happens. The NJ Republican Governor, again, demonstrates leadership and stands up to intimidation of the Big Government Statist NJ Teachers’ Union. As he stands for The Forgotten Taxpayer ...

4.39% and $201.5 Annual Budget

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Lower Merion School District proposes 4.39% tax hike.   The current budget contained the largest tax-rate percentage increase in the region. The preliminary $201.5 million proposal for next year calls for a 4.39 percent tax hike. If that passes in June, the tax on a house assessed at the district median ...