League of Women Voters Wrong on Vouchers By: Dawn Chavous

The recent op-ed by the League of Women Voters of Chester County analyzing school vouchers was wrong on every issue. Our obligation is to our kids, not to the system. Kids should not be harmed because adults cannot fix their schools. And those who are able to ensure a quality education for their own children do not have the right to deprive less fortunate families the opportunity to do the same.

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Gerlach’s Voting Record Speaks For Itself By: Dan Pourreau

Some have claimed Gerlach voted to “gut” the EPA and prevent it from enforcing the Clean Air Act. Others have claimed that he has “abandoned our core environmental and public heath programs.” These charges are baseless and demonstrate the lengths to which environmental activists will distort the truth to advance their goals.

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Wake Up, There Are No Free Lunches By: Ken Knuth

Gov. Corbett was elected because he said he would balance the state’s budget and anyone with any common sense knew then that some folks in the Commonwealth were going to receive less state money if he was to accomplish that objective. The cry from the state’s universities is deafening, presenting all kinds of hollow reasons why the students will become victims for lack of state money.

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How Chile Was Saved

By Jose Pinera. I faced a very difficult choice at the end of 1974: to remain in Boston enjoying the academic life I loved so much, or to go back to help the Chicago Boys fight for a new country. I chose the latter. This team of economists who had learned so much from the American experiment did a “friendly takeover” of the Pinochet government in order to engineer a free-market revolution and to restore democratic rule. Our goal was nothing less than to transform a socialist country into a free one. And, we believe, we succeeded.

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“Status Quo” Stranglehold

“Status Quo”. Every media reporter, parent, and taxpayer should understand this issue. ‘Status quo’ means that the teachers’ union enters into contract negotiations knowing they can do no worse than they’re currently getting.

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