Sweeping aside decades of legal precedent and policy-making tradition, Senate Republicans passed a pension reform bill Wednesday that, as written, would change benefit formulas mid-career for more than 360,000 current state workers and school employees.  The 28-19 vote was a ringing endorsement for Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman’s insistence that killing Pennsylvania’s tax-eating pension tapeworm is a must-have for the 30-member Senate GOP caucus in this spring’s state budget talks.

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Source: Penn Live, by Charles Thompson | cthompson@pennlive.com, on May 13, 2015 at 9:30 PM, updated May 13, 2015 at 9:35 PM; PA Ed Policy Roundup, May 14, 2015.