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The difficulties of assigning ESG ratings
The problems with public pension systems and private companies trying to create environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) risk ratings.
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Pension Reform News: Hybrid pension proposal falls short in Louisiana, shortcomings of ESG scores, and more
Plus: Texas needs to reform teacher pensions, past pension missteps should be a warning to California, and more.
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Annual Privatization Report 2022 — Surface Transportation
In surface transportation policy, public-private partnership are far more common than privatized roads.
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California community colleges are losing students
If students don’t return soon, community colleges will face a financial crisis.
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Annual Privatization Report 2022
The latest trends in privatization and public-private partnerships.
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Biden keeps his bad promise on charter schools
The administration recently proposed a new Department of Education rule to make it more difficult for nonprofit organizations to open charter schools, forcing them to comply with many unnecessary regulations and bureaucratic paperwork requests.
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Over 100,000 died from drug overdoses in 2021 as public policy drives people to fentanyl
Accepting a false narrative will likely prevent policymakers and the public from confronting the true underlying cause of the drug-overdose crisis.
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How to make overdue reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act
“CEQA is the law that swallowed California."
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California’s high-speed rail line will share track with commuter rail, slowing trains and increasing accident risks
Sharing track with commuter rail means that the service billed as high-speed rail will run more slowly than originally promised to voters and that high-speed trains will run through grade-level railroad crossings.
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Eliminating the cultivation tax would help California’s legal cannabis industry compete with the illicit market
Eliminating the cultivation tax would allow farmers and licensed cannabis retailers to lower prices, making the legal marijuana market more competitive with illicit markets.
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Utah should abolish qualified immunity, implement the common law standard
Fear of frivolous lawsuits does not vindicate qualified immunity.
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Data shows financial incentives matter for K-12 open enrollment policies
If school districts do not receive sufficient funding for transfer students, they’re not going to be as willing to participate in an open enrollment program.
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Surface Transportation News: Anti-highway rhetoric, electricity on highways, and more
Plus: Hyperloop's still-unanswered questions, why free transit may not reduce auto trips, and more.
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What is a revenue-risk public-private partnership?
And when is revenue risk the better financing choice for the state and taxpayers?
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Testimony: Teacher Retirement System of Texas can improve funding policies to benefit taxpayers, employees
The pension plan's outdated actuarial assumptions, funding policies, and benefit offerings hurt teachers' retirement security.
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The impact of California’s cannabis taxes on participation within the legal market
This analysis develops an empirical model to estimate the degree to which California’s tax regime affects participation within its commercial cannabis market, and how participation may change through different approaches to taxation.
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Open enrollment policies don’t have to affect student athletics
There are a variety of ways states can handle student athletic eligibility questions that can arise when implementing open enrollment policies.
