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Student-Based Budgeting Helps Principals Be More Effective Educators
Some school districts fear budget autonomy will distract principals but are finding it actually helps principals identify what is working and what is needed at their schools
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Devastating Fires Show Forest Management Reforms Are Badly Needed
How to fix the management of forests in the Northwest to better prevent and fight wildfires
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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
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Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #20 (August 2015 edition)
August 2015 edition: pay-for-success contracting in community corrections, pension-related ballot measures in Arizona, carbon regulation and more
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Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, August 2015
"Student-based budgeting isn't about the dollar amount. It's about the ability to design a school."
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Pay for Success Contracting Reducing Recidivism in Pennsylvania
Promising results from performance contract in community corrections
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Arizona Election Results on Pensions
Voters reject pension tax in Prescott, approve modest reforms in Phoenix
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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.
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An Outsourcing Tale of Two Cities
Contrasting use of privatization in Costa Mesa, San Bernardino to address budgets, pensions
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Unionization Efforts Could Halt Progress at Innovative Los Angeles Charter Schools
United Teachers Los Angeles aims to unionize successful Alliance College-Ready Public Schools built on flexibility and autonomy
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The Social Cost of Carbon Underestimates Human Ingenuity, Overestimates Climate Sensitivity
The Clean Power Plan and climate change models assume the climate is more sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide than is actually the case