Education

Harrisburg Patriot-News: Class of 2013 college grads: Losing their ticket to America's 'opportunity society?'

Type: Media Coverage

May 6, 2013 - 12:13pm

By John Luciew
Harrisburg Patriot-News

In this day and age, college is one of the ways you join the opportunity society. Is this going to be the missed-out-on-opportunity generation?

Don’t call them the Lost Generation. That’s too apocalyptic even for this Keynesian economist.

But the raft of college grads matriculating into one of the worst recessions and most anemic recoveries on record could be losing out on what college used to represent: A ticket to America’s opportunity society.
Privatized School Buses Cost Taxpayers More

Type: Press Release

March 13, 2012 - 9:41am
Runaway Spending: Private Contractors Increase the Cost of School Student Transportation Services in Pennsylvania

Type: Research Report

March 13, 2012 - 9:28am
Pennsylvania Annual Unemployment Rate Is Highest In Nearly 30 Years

Type: Press Release

July 18, 2011 - 11:10am

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Under Attack: Pennsylvania's Middle Class and the Jobs Crisis

Type: Research Report

July 18, 2011 - 10:59am

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Despite Changes, Senate Voucher Plan Deeply Flawed

Type: Press Release

April 26, 2011 - 1:39pm

HARRISBURG, PA (April 26, 2011) — As the Pennsylvania Legislature returns to session today, state senators may take up legislation that would establish the largest-in-the nation taxpayer-funded school vouchers program for students attending religious and private schools.

Stephen Herzenberg, PhD, Economist and Executive Director of the Keystone Research Center, issued the following statement analyzing the measure, Senate Bill 1, as amended in the Senate Appropriations Committee on April 11.
No Accountability in Existing State Program Funneling Tax Credits to Private Schools

Type: Press Release

April 7, 2011 - 12:18pm

Media Conference Call: Listen to a recording of a media conference call on the report, featuring Stephen Herzenberg, PhD, Executive Director of the Keystone Research Center, and Joe Bard, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools.
No Accountability: Pennsylvania’s Track Record Using Taxpayer Dollars to Pay for Private and Religious School Tuition

Type: Research Report

April 6, 2011 - 2:21pm
Race to the Bottom?

Type: Op-Eds

March 1, 2011 - 1:10pm

“When I was kidnapped,” Woody Allen says in the movie Annie Hall, “my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.”

The idea of wildly wrongheaded behavior when it comes to children has echoed around in my head recently while observing the education policy discussion in the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
Pa. Should ‘Stay the Course’ on Education Progress of Past Decade

Type: Press Release

March 1, 2011 - 1:04pm

HARRISBURG, PA (March 1, 2011) — With the Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee poised to consider a plan to increase funding for taxpayer-funded school vouchers, the Keystone Research Center today issued this public statement and attached commentary which news outlets are free to publish with attribution.

Statement of Stephen Herzenberg, economist and executive director of the Keystone Research Center, on the proposed establishment of a large-scale program to distribute taxpayer-funded vouchers to private and religious schools:

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