politics

Reform Pa. cyber charter funding
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 26, 2025
A recent report from Auditor General Tim DeFoor, a Republican, has found that Pennsylvania's cyber charter schools, deploying an archaic tuition model...
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Auditor General calls for cyber charter funding reform
Local News, News, PA State News
CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
Feb 26, 2025
HARRISBURG — A new analysis of cyber charter school funding offers a familiar recommendation: consider recalculating how the state pays to keep them o...
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Billions spent on immigration aid
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2025
The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency’s five-year total to $22.6 billion since 2020...
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Perceiving Trump’s endgame
Opinion, Сolumns
G. DIRK MATEER and CHARITY-JOY ACCHIARDO RealClearPolitics 
Feb 25, 2025
What lies ahead now that Americans have just witnessed one of the most dramatic trade gambits seen at the beginning of a presidential term? By most ac...
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House digs into big education budget
News, PA State News
CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
Feb 25, 2025
HARRISBURG — Education is the second largest spending area in the state’s budget after human services. For legislators on both sides of the aisle, the...
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Trump risks making same economic mistakes as Biden
Opinion, Сolumns
ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Feb 24, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — There is one surefire way to know when someone is trying to pull one over on you: If they’re promising something for nothing — whethe...
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Federal agencies mum on DOGE local impacts
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Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Feb 21, 2025
Has this rural area of Pennsylvania dodged DOGE? It doesn't seem like it, but mum's the word so far on the potential impact of federal cuts by the Dep...
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Justice Department crisis was an unforced error
Opinion, Сolumns
NOAH FELDMAN Bloomberg Opinion 
Feb 21, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Here’s the most important yet overlooked fact about theJustice Departmentprosecutors who resigned rather than drop charges againstN...
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Trump is delivering, but the goal shouldn’t be chaos
Opinion, Сolumns
MATT WYLIE The Charlotte Observer 
Feb 21, 2025
HILTON HEAD, S.C. (TNS) — It’s been pretty entertaining watching the left unravel day after day. Turn on almost any network — exceptFox News— and you’...
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Battered Democrats hope to regain their focus
Opinion, Сolumns
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Feb 20, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like everyone else in Washington, Democratic Party leaders have been stunned by the speed and the breadth of President Donald Trump...
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