Shenango Institute for Public Policy
Policy Brief
The Shenango Institute intends to publish regular public policy briefs that will comment on a particular item in the new or analyze the results of one of our studies. Although the contents of the policy briefs may encompass a variety of topics, special attention will be given to those issues which affect governments in central-western PA.
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Past issues of the Shenango Institute's Policy Brief:
Volume 6, No. 4, July 2004 - Minimum Wage, Maximum Nonsense: Give
Lower-Skilled Workers A Chance
Volume 6, No. 3, March 2004 - Pledging Allegiance Without God
Volume 6, No. 2, March 2004 - A Tax by Any Other Name
Volume 6, No. 1, January 2004 - Disarming the Amish
Volume 5, No. 16, November 2003 - The Morality of Math
Volume 5, No. 15, October 2003 - CBS News on the Deadly Risks of
Homeschooling
Volume 5, No. 14, October 2003 - Video Amendment Could Increase Truth
Volume 5, No. 13, October 2003 - How a Virus Hurt PA Education
Volume 5, No. 12, July 2003 - A Class-IC Mistake
Volume 5, No. 11, July 2003 - Expressions of Faith Affirmed
Volume 5, No. 10, July 2003 - Lotteries and Their Defenders
Volume 5, No.
9, June 2003 - Expendable Expenditures
Volume 5,
No. 8, May 2003 - Homeschooling is Growing and Important Movement,
deserves cooperation
Volume 5,
No. 7, May 2003 - An Expression of Faith in Our Public Schools
Volume
5, No. 6, May 2003 - Make All of Pennsylvania a KOZ
(A gentlemen's response to
Keystone Opportunity Expansion
Zones)
Volume 5, No. 5,
May 2003 - Bill Bennett and His Critics
Volume 5, No. 4, May 2003 -
Pro-Public School Choice
Volume 5, No. 3, May 2003 - Keystone
Equal Expansion Zones: Unequal Opportunities
Volume 5, No. 2, February 2003 -
Rendell Should Privatize Pennsylvania’s Liquor Stores
Volume 5, No. 1, January 2003 -
Rendell Should Use Privatization Solution
Volume 4, No. 5,
December 2002 - The Public School Grinch: The Reasons Public Schools Give
for Not Displaying Christmas Decorations
Volume 4, No. 4, March 2002 -
Pennsylvania's New Economic Standards Deserve Gentleman's "C"
Volume 4, No. 3,
March 2002 - The Capital Stock and Franchise Tax Issue: It's All
About Attitudes
Volume 4, No. 2, February
2002 - Prevailing Wages: Costly and Unnecessary
Volume 4, No. 1, January
2002 - Let's Not Forget Memory
Volume
3, No. 10, December 2001 - Fact and Fiction about Cyber Charter
Schools
Volume 3, No. 9, November
2001
- New Study Shows that Pennsylvania Prospers Under NAFTA
Volume 3, No. 8, October 2001
- Economies of School: Privatization and Small Districts
Volume
3, No. 7, September 2001 - Pennsylvania Union Trends Threaten
Economic Freedom
Volume
3, No. 6, July 2001 - How Much are Pennsylvania Schools Spending
Volume
3, No. 5, April 2001 - An Education Tax Credit Would Benefit
Central Western PA
Volume
3, No. 4, April 2001 - Core Knowledge Looks Promising
Volume
3, No. 3, March 2001 - Schools Should Privatize Non-Educational
Services
Volume
3, No. 2, February 2001 - Empowering Public Housing Residents
Volume
3, No. 1, January 2001 - Some of the winners in the Innovation in
Government Competition
Volume 2, No.
12, Late December 2000 - Assessing the text books used in local high school
Economics classes
Volume 2, No. 11, Early
December 2000 - Assessing the privatization of the Venango County Home
Volume 2, No. 10, November
2000 - News on the effects of our school study other various updates
Volume 2, No. 9, October 2000
- Analyzing a potential state bill that would mandate sprinkler systems for private
colleges
Volume 2, No. 8, September 2000
- Various local and national updates on education
Volume 2, No. 7, June 2000
- Analyzing and comparing local school districts
Volume 2, No. 6, May 2000
- Suggesting new approaches to and alternative sources for public school finance
Volume 2, No. 5, May 2000
- Alerts about "educational" text books and encouraging signs of privatization
Volume 2, No. 4, April 2000
- Analyzing the benefits of Venango County privatizing its tax assessments office
Volume 2, No. 3, March 2000
- Comparing the spending of local counties and illustrating how they can benefit from
privatization
Volume 2, No. 2, February 2000
- Assessing the costs of educational conferences for public school teachers
Volume 2, No. 1, January 2000
- Featuring the reasoning for and advantages of Mercer County privatizing its
prison