All this was just a prelude to the really big idea that the [PA Governor Corbett] governor volunteered. He told me, “There is a school of thought there that we shouldn’t fund the schools at all. This is going to blow everybody’s mind – we should fund the students.” That’s certainly a different and unique approach.
He fleshed out this idea by saying that we could “do our own Pennsylvania education bill. Take all the money that we would send to all those schools, put it in one package and give it to Pennsylvania students to go to Pennsylvania schools – and they can attend any school. It can be a private school; it could be a state school. It could also be a technical school, because we need more people in the trades, more people in the technical area.”
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