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Funding Education Opportunity: Midterm school choice success, new K-12 open enrollment report, and more
Plus: California's new education spending mandate.
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Why teacher salaries are flat as school spending soars
Benefit costs, staffing trends and class sizes may explain why teacher salaries have remained flat while K-12 education spending has grown.
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Pension Reform News: ESG blueprint, Arizona’s pre-funding, and more
Plus: Cost-of-living increases in Texas, portable retirement plans, and warning signs from the U.K.
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Properly designed impact fees could help Wakulla County accommodate population growth
Impact fees can effectively offset the need to raise additional revenue from other fees and taxes, such as property taxes.
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Aviation Policy News: Airport groups, the evolving U.S. airline market, and more
Plus: Ultra-low-cost carriers, air traffic control modernization, aviation emissions, and more.
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Comments on Oregon’s proposed psilocybin services rules
Overall, the process appears to have generated a prudent set of rules that would create a program that balances client safety with strong licensee oversight under a flexible set of program rules.
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How text messages could help California reduce parole and probation violations
Text message reminders for parole and probation meetings are an easy and inexpensive way to help people stay on track and reduce recidivism.
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Steps to protect public finance from ESG activism
Public pension systems are particularly exposed to the risks associated with ESG and politically-driven investing strategies.
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Scrutinizing high ESG fees, greenwashing and the politicization of public pension funds
ESG-focused investing is drawing criticism, even from some supporters, due to overstated claims and high fees.
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Reforming the Department of Transportation’s aviation consumer protection authority
DOT increasingly uses its authority to protect consumers from unfair practices to chip away at airline deregulation.
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Improving K-12 open enrollment transparency is low-hanging fruit for state policymakers
Parents and policymakers need transparent data about public school transfers.
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Testimony: The negative impacts of Columbus’ proposed ban on flavored tobacco
Flavor bans at the local level have little effect on public health and potentially disastrous consequences for communities of color.
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The UK’s margin call offers warning signs for public pension funds in the US
American policymakers can derive an important lesson from the current pension challenges in the United Kingdom.
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Surface Transportation News: Gas stations and electric vehicle charging, high-speed rail failure, and more
Plus: Smart roads' disappointing performance, induced demand, British toll roads, and more.
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Transportation departments embrace revenue-risk public-private partnerships
Revenue-risk P3s create a customer-provider relationship that is absent when the state builds and maintains a highway based on what the legislature decides.
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Public schools without boundaries 2022: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws
Only 11 states have mandatory open enrollment laws that allow students to easily transfer to other public schools and 26 states allow public schools to charge tuition to public school transfer students.
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How text message reminders can help reduce technical parole and probation violations
This report's findings suggest that sending text message reminders for scheduled appointments could reduce canceled and missed parole and probation appointments by as much as 21% and 29%, respectively.
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The future of school choice: Funding all students through education savings accounts
Making education savings accounts the default funding mechanism for K-12 education and eliminating residential assignment would establish a robust education marketplace that is parent-driven and student-centered.
