Yearly Archives: 2024
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Examining the Mississippi Public Employee Retirement System’s challenges
Data and modeling highlighting the causes of Mississippi PERS' rising costs, $25 billion in unfunded liabilities, and the best strategies and policies going forward.
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Wisconsin’s K-12 open enrollment program is working for rural school districts
More than 73,000 of Wisconsin's public school students used open enrollment last year and 31% of transfer students transferred to rural school districts.
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The significant differences between Rhode Island’s unconstitutional bridge tolls and Louisiana’s Calcasieu Bridge
A federal judge ruled Rhode Island’s truck tolls on interstate bridges unconstitutional, but Louisiana's Calcasieu River Bridge plan is significantly different.
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Eidson v. South Carolina: School choice program is designed to provide new opportunities to all eligible families
School choice— like South Carolina’s ESTF program—is a tool to provide children equal access to education while recognizing that all children learn in unique ways.
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Analysis: 34 cities in Georgia collected at least 20 percent of their total revenue from fines and forfeitures
Five cities in Georgia—Lenox, Warwick, Oliver, Hiltonia, and Rock Ford—collected at least 50 percent of their total revenues from fines and forfeitures.
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Arkansas K-12 education finance series: A short history of school finance reform and look at 2024’s adequacy review process
This column is the first in a series examining Arkansas’s K-12 funding system and the state legislature’s biennial adequacy review process.
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A bipartisan reform to increase school choice, improve public schools
Open enrollment allows students and parents to find the best public schools for their educational and social needs.
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Public-private partnership is best way to fund Calcasieu River Bridge replacement
Financing the Calcasieu River Bridge project using a public-private partnership and funding it with tolls is the realistic delivery option that is best for Louisiana taxpayers.
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Biden administration should reject the proposed menthol ban
President Biden should take a careful look at data that suggests such a prohibition would not make a substantial impact on youth smoking rates or public health.
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Progressives should support public school open enrollment to help schools and students
Allowing kids to transfer to the public schools of their choice is a win-win policy for California’s students, public school advocates, and school districts.
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How Oklahoma’s public pension reforms led the state employees’ plan to full funding
The Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, which was only 66% funded in 2010, now has more than 100% of the funds needed to pay for promised pension benefits.
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The future of U.S. toll agencies
The toll industry should be helping state transportation departments show motorists there's a customer-friendly way to begin the transition away from unsustainable gas taxes.
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Psychedelics Policy Newsletter: Impactful ibogaine study, bill introduced in New Hampshire, and more
Plus: State news roundup and the defense spending bill calls for research on using psychedelics to treat PTSD in military members, and more.
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Marijuana social equity programs should be redesigned to focus on restorative justice
Social equity should not simply be a false mantra for politically connected and well-capitalized opportunists to distort new marijuana markets or exploit the public purse.
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Congress should remove IRS rules restricting public pension reforms for current employees
There is no good public policy reason why only new hires can benefit from retirement plan modernization.
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State psychedelics policy roundup: January 2024 edition
New Hampshire proposes retail sales, Colorado considers ways to lower costs of professional services, and more.
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New Hampshire proposes a unique approach to medical psychedelics
House Bill 1693 would allow qualified individuals to purchase and consume LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin.
