Commentaries

What We Can Learn From Successful Education Reforms in New Orleans

School choice, student-based budgeting and giving principals spending power can help schools everywhere

By Tyler Koteskey
September 21, 2015

Pensions Continue Eating More of Local Budgets

As more and more tax dollars are siphoned off to pay escalating public pension costs, local governments across California are increasingly struggling to provide quality services to their residents.

By Pete Constant
September 19, 2015

Student-Based Budgeting has helped Chicago; CPS budget bungling is the real problem

By Tyler Koteskey
September 18, 2015

Indianapolis Public Schools Begin Student-Based Budgeting

By Savannah Robinson
September 18, 2015

Key Insights from Colorado’s Student-Based Budgeting Districts

By Aaron Garth Smith
September 17, 2015

School Districts Show Little Faith in Principals

By Aaron Garth Smith
September 1, 2015

City-Owned Golf Courses Should Be Sold or Privatized

The Bobby Jones Golf Course in Sarasota shows why government shouldn't be in the golf course business

By Adrian Moore
August 31, 2015

Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #20 (August 2015 edition)

By Leonard Gilroy
August 31, 2015

Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #20 (August 2015 edition)

By Leonard Gilroy
August 31, 2015

Pay for Success Contracting Reducing Recidivism in Pennsylvania

Promising results from performance contract in community corrections

By Leonard Gilroy
August 31, 2015

Arizona Election Results on Pensions

Voters reject pension tax in Prescott, approve modest reforms in Phoenix

By Leonard Gilroy
August 31, 2015

Pew Report on State Pension Debt

By Truong Bui
August 30, 2015

Pension Bonds Encourage Underfunding

By Truong Bui
August 30, 2015

Busting the Myth That Actuarial Assumptions Drive Costs

By Truong Bui
August 30, 2015

Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of DC plans vs. DB plans

By Truong Bui
August 30, 2015

Obama’s Clean Power Plan Is Bad News for California

The White House recently released its Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030.

By Tom Tanton and Julian Morris
August 28, 2015

Ten Years Later: Opinion vs. Fact about New Orleans Education Reform

By Savannah Robinson
August 28, 2015

An Outsourcing Tale of Two Cities

Contrasting use of privatization in Costa Mesa, San Bernardino to address budgets, pensions

By Leonard Gilroy
August 25, 2015