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  • Modernizing School Finance in Idaho
    Modernizing School Finance in Idaho

    This policy brief provides a brief overview of Idaho’s school finance system, highlights its primary shortcomings, and makes several recommendations for reform.

    By Aaron Garth Smith, Christian Barnard and Satya Marar
    January 11, 2021

  • Contracting Mass Transit Services
    Contracting Mass Transit Services

    Transit contracting should always follow three principles: guaranteeing public control, promoting competition, and ensuring transparency.

    By Baruch Feigenbaum and Joe Hillman
    December 29, 2020

  • Defined Benefit Plans: Best Practices in Incorporating Risk Sharing
    Defined Benefit Plans: Best Practices in Incorporating Risk Sharing

    Public pension risk sharing can increase plan solvency, provide better accountability, and lessen the burden that unfunded liabilities have on taxpayers.

    By Ryan Frost
    December 2, 2020

  • Defined Contribution Plans: Best Practices in Design and Utilization
    Defined Contribution Plans: Best Practices in Design and Utilization

    If properly designed, defined contribution plans can meet the employee retirement needs of today’s evolving and dynamic public sector workforce.

    By Richard Hiller, Raheem Williams and Leonard Gilroy
    December 2, 2020

  • The Gold Standard In Public Retirement System Design Series
    The Gold Standard In Public Retirement System Design Series

    Best practices and recommendations to help states move into a more sustainable public pension model for employees and taxpayers.  

    By Pension Integrity Project
    December 2, 2020

  • Inform: Give Stakeholders The Information They Need to Make Sound Education Funding Decisions 
    Inform: Give Stakeholders The Information They Need to Make Sound Education Funding Decisions 

    Financial transparency can help leaders get the most out of education dollars while shining light on their spending decisions.

    By Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard
    October 29, 2020

  • Empower: How to Put Families and School Leaders in the Driver’s Seat
    Empower: How to Put Families and School Leaders in the Driver’s Seat

    Policymakers should let those who are closest to kids decide how education dollars are spent, and families should be given options outside of their residentially-assigned public schools.

    By Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard
    October 29, 2020

  • Equalize: Education Funding Policies That Put All Kids on a Level Playing Field
    Equalize: Education Funding Policies That Put All Kids on a Level Playing Field

    Education dollars should be equalized to ensure that funding is based on students, not property wealth or zip code.

    By Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard
    October 29, 2020

  • Streamline: How to Allocate Education Dollars Strategically
    Streamline: How to Allocate Education Dollars Strategically

    Education dollars should be allocated based on students’ needs using a weighted-student formula so that funding is fair, portable, and transparent.

    By Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard
    October 29, 2020

  • A Student-Centered Funding Roadmap for Policymakers
    A Student-Centered Funding Roadmap for Policymakers

    Student-centered funding models treat every child more fairly, better recognize individuality, and allow for innovation and progress.

    By Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard
    October 29, 2020

  • Planning For Potential Budget Cutbacks In Michigan: Sustainable School Finance Solutions
    Planning For Potential Budget Cutbacks In Michigan: Sustainable School Finance Solutions

    Even in a constrained fiscal environment, Michigan can improve education funding equity and better empower local school leaders.

    By Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard
    October 27, 2020

  • 10 Best Practices For State Automated Vehicle Policy
    10 Best Practices For State Automated Vehicle Policy

    This policy brief offers 10 policy recommendations for state policymakers to promote automated vehicle innovation while protecting the public interest.

    By Marc Scribner
    September 24, 2020

  • Reimagining Transportation Policy During and After COVID-19
    Reimagining Transportation Policy During and After COVID-19

    The coronavirus pandemic is going to prompt changes to America’s transportation systems and policies.

    By Randal O'Toole
    September 22, 2020

  • Best Practices for Providing Education Funding for Economically Disadvantaged Students
    Best Practices for Providing Education Funding for Economically Disadvantaged Students

    This report examines federal education funding for student poverty and how state education finance systems can best fund students.

    By Satya Marar
    August 11, 2020

  • Vital PPE: How To Increase Production and Distribution of Masks to Fight COVID-19
    Vital PPE: How To Increase Production and Distribution of Masks to Fight COVID-19

    Part six of a series discussing strategies for combating and recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. The important role PPE has in containing the coronavirus and returning to pre-COVID-19 economic activities.

    By Jacob James Rich
    August 10, 2020

  • Solving Florida’s Blue-Green Algae Bloom Crisis
    Solving Florida’s Blue-Green Algae Bloom Crisis

    Algal blooms and their associated health risks have the potential to hurt large segments of Florida’s economy and public well-being.

    By Vittorio Nastasi
    July 28, 2020

  • COVID-19 And Soaring Costs Are New Challenges for Texas High-Speed Rail Line
    COVID-19 And Soaring Costs Are New Challenges for Texas High-Speed Rail Line

    If Texas Central chooses to move ahead with this high-speed rail project, lawmakers and taxpayers should ensure it does not receive stimulus funding.

    By Baruch Feigenbaum
    July 27, 2020

  • Monitor-Test-Trace-Isolate: Policies for Understanding and Reacting to COVID-19 Infections
    Monitor-Test-Trace-Isolate: Policies for Understanding and Reacting to COVID-19 Infections

    Part five of a series discussing strategies for combating and recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. Technologies that enable contact tracing and sharing of verified COVID-19 status while preserving privacy and autonomy.

    By Julian Morris
    July 23, 2020

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