Olivia Leonard is a writer and editor at State Budget Solutions. She has previously worked as a researcher, writer, and analyst for Cascade Policy Institute and the Freedom Foundation, where she continues to work on education policy as a part of the iLearn Project. Olivia graduated from Hillsdale College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a focus in American Studies.
Funding for universities in Iowa is currently at the center of Iowa's budget debates, with Democrat and Republican legislators taking opposite approaches.
Movement toward school choice is a good thing; school choice helps out struggling state budgets as well as struggling student test scores.
Texas's budget, while appearing balanced on the surface, is a product of federal stimulus funds and budget gimmicks that included risky gambles with future funds, delayed payments, and underfunded programs.
Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Corbett seems to be joining New Jersey's Chris Christie and Indiana's Mitch Daniels in the ranks of school choice champions with the October announcement of his education reform plan.
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