Joe D'Orsie

Jul 25, 2024 | broadandliberty.com | Joe D'Orsie

Robertson + D’Orsie: Generation Z needs school choice Steven Robertson and Rep. Joe D’Orsie Opinions and ideas swirl around the school choice debate. We’re debating money, outcomes, and — occasionally — the kids our arguments affect.

Jun 7, 2024 | bradfordera.com | Joe D'Orsie |Mike Jones

When considering Pennsylvania’s economic competitiveness, or lack thereof, the stubborn fact is that the state is continuing to get smaller, older and poorer. Opportunistic competitor states have seized on this fact, outpacing us in key economic areas and attracting workers, families, and businesses. Politically, we’ve lost a congressional seat due to this trend; economically, the domestic migration of ex-Pennsylvanians has hit home.

Jan 17, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Joe D'Orsie

State Rep. Joe D’Orsie gets Straight to the Point with Corey DeAngelis PH.D., Senior Fellow at the American Federation for Children, and author of The Parent Revolution - Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools

Dec 17, 2023 | ydr.com | Joe D'Orsie

If the adoption of universal educational choice was based solely on public support, we’d have it here in Pennsylvania. A comfortable majority of voters, and an even more lopsided majority of parents of school-age kids, support every form of educational choice here in the commonwealth, from tax credit scholarships all the way up to universal choice. So, what’s holding it back? It’s my assessment that the only obstacle to choice in our state is money (and its effects), power, control, and politics.

Jun 11, 2023 | bradfordera.com | Joe D'Orsie

If you’ve seen statewide headlines or asked the state teacher’s union lately, you’ll get the same canned explanation for the purported teacher shortage in Pennsylvania: the state is dangerously short of educators because of a lack of pay, deficient teacher/student ratios, and the insurmountable cost of higher education.