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NAEP Scores Highlight Achievement Gap in Texas School Districts

By Aaron Garth Smith
January 3, 2016

Green Benefits of School Choice

School choice offers emerging evidence that it can benefit students and their communities.

By Lisa Snell
December 29, 2015

Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, December 2015

“Great leaders need to be making those decisions about their schools. They have the local context. They know their students. We want to have the ability to make decisions about how to support them.”

By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
December 29, 2015

ESSA Delivers Equity for (Some) Low-Income Students

By Aaron Garth Smith
December 21, 2015

Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent: Great Leaders Need to Make Decisions About Their Schools

By Aaron Garth Smith
December 14, 2015

Surface Transportation News #146

The disappointing FAST Act | Commuting, land use, and economic productivity

By Robert Poole
December 10, 2015

New Database of California Public Pensions

By Truong Bui
December 9, 2015

An Analysis of Public Pension Investments in Hedge Funds

By Truong Bui
December 9, 2015

Houston Facing Pension Crisis

By Truong Bui
December 9, 2015

Houston Facing Pension Crisis

By Truong Bui
December 9, 2015

Defined Benefit vs. Defined Contribution Plans – Which Is Better at Achieving Successful Retirement?

By Truong Bui
December 9, 2015

Public vs. Private Sector Compensation in Connecticut

By Truong Bui
December 9, 2015

How Much Do Schools Really Pay?

By Truong Bui
December 9, 2015

How Much Do Schools Really Pay?

By Truong Bui
December 9, 2015

Pension Reform Newsletter – November 2015

How Much Do Schools Really Pay?, Public vs Private Sector Compensation in Connecticut, DB vs. DC Plans at Achieving Successful Retirement, Houston Pension Crisis, Pension Investments in Hedge Funds, and more

By Adrian Moore
December 8, 2015

Florida Is Making Mistakes With Endangered Species Act

Florida would do well to look at the Texas model and adapt it for managing the new wave of endangered species.

By Adrian Moore
December 8, 2015

New Jersey Construction Union Tries to Convince Taxpayers that More Expensive, Poor-quality Roads are a Bargain

By Baruch Feigenbaum
December 7, 2015

Georgia Set to Overhaul School Funding System

By Aaron Garth Smith
December 4, 2015