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  • Annual Aviation Infrastructure Report 2025
    Annual Aviation Infrastructure Report 2025

    For the world overall, 45% of all passenger air traffic moves through airports with significant private investment.

    Policy Brief by Marc Scribner May 29, 2025

  • Advanced air mobility infrastructure: Considerations for state policymakers
    Advanced air mobility infrastructure: Considerations for state policymakers

    Advanced air mobility services aim to bring small-scale aviation to the local and regional transportation markets currently dominated by automobiles.

    Policy Brief by Marc Scribner March 31, 2026

  • K-12 Education Spending Spotlight 2021: An in-depth look at school finance data and trends
    K-12 Education Spending Spotlight 2021: An in-depth look at school finance data and trends

    Reason Foundation’s 2019 K-12 Education Spending Spotlight provides critical insight into key school finance trends across the country by providing policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders easy access to K-12 education spending data in every state. 

    K-12 Education Spending Spotlight by Jordan Campbell, Aaron Garth Smith, Christian Barnard and Jude Schwalbach September 30, 2021

  • U.S. Space Traffic Management and Orbital Debris Policy
    U.S. Space Traffic Management and Orbital Debris Policy

    Public-private partnerships could improve the tracking and removal of space debris and better manage space traffic.

    Policy Brief by Rebecca van Burken July 22, 2021

  • Best practices for cost-of-living adjustment designs in public pension systems
    Best practices for cost-of-living adjustment designs in public pension systems

    Striking the proper balance between cost, risk, and benefits in a way that works for both employees and employers.

    Policy Brief by Rod Crane August 18, 2022

  • Mass Transit Systems Face Critical Challenges Now and When COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over
    Mass Transit Systems Face Critical Challenges Now and When COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over

    Public transportation is uniquely sensitive to changes in the number of people working from home, changes in commuting patterns, and concerns over public health and safety.

    Policy Brief by Steven E. Polzin March 25, 2021

  • Examining the causes of induced demand and the future of highway expansion
    Examining the causes of induced demand and the future of highway expansion

    The most effective method for reducing induced demand is to implement pricing on highways.

    Policy Brief by Steven E. Polzin January 25, 2022

  • Transportation and climate change: Travel trends and GHG emissions
    Transportation and climate change: Travel trends and GHG emissions

    As the single largest domestic GHG emissions-producing sector, transportation is inevitably a focus of climate change mitigation initiatives.

    Policy Brief by Steven E. Polzin April 9, 2025

  • Transportation and climate change: Public transit
    Transportation and climate change: Public transit

    This report focuses primarily on operating energy intensiveness and transportation energy impacts as affected by public transportation’s influence on land use.

    Policy Brief by Steven E. Polzin April 16, 2025

  • Transportation and climate change: Urban mobility in a climate-sensitive world
    Transportation and climate change: Urban mobility in a climate-sensitive world

    Transportation is undergoing its most profound changes in over half a century.

    Policy Brief by Steven E. Polzin April 23, 2025

  • What Factors Impact Public Pension Reform?
    What Factors Impact Public Pension Reform?

    This brief analyzes several different factors that impact the likelihood of state policymakers making changes to a pension plan.

    Policy Study by Michael Bednarczuk and Jen Sidorova April 7, 2021

  • The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: What Happened and What Can Be Done to Avoid Another One?
    The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: What Happened and What Can Be Done to Avoid Another One?

    This report focuses on ERCOT and the electric power system because the power outages were the proximate cause of many hardships suffered during the failures.

    Policy Brief by Michael Giberson April 22, 2021

  • Refocusing U.S. welfare policy on economic opportunity
    Refocusing U.S. welfare policy on economic opportunity

    This study examines how the welfare system and banking, housing, criminal justice, and labor market regulations reduce and undermine opportunities for low-income Americans.

    Policy Study by Max Gulker June 19, 2023

  • Frequently asked questions on public school open enrollment
    Frequently asked questions on public school open enrollment

    Public school open enrollment policies allow students to transfer to the public school of their choice.

    FAQ by Jude Schwalbach August 25, 2022

  • Public schools without boundaries 2022: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws
    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.

    Public Schools Without Boundaries by Jude Schwalbach November 3, 2022

  • Public schools without boundaries 2023: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws
    Public schools without boundaries 2023: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws

    Six states, including Arizona and Florida, have implemented four out of five best practices for public school open enrollment, but 34 states have implemented one or none.

    Public Schools Without Boundaries by Jude Schwalbach October 26, 2023

  • Public schools without boundaries 2024: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws
    Public schools without boundaries 2024: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws

    Study finds Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia have the best public school transfer and open enrollment laws.

    Public Schools Without Boundaries by Jude Schwalbach October 29, 2024

  • Public schools without boundaries 2025: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws
    Public schools without boundaries 2025: Ranking every state’s open enrollment laws

    Study finds 16 states have statewide cross-district open enrollment and 17 states have statewide within-district open enrollment.

    Public Schools Without Boundaries by Jude Schwalbach October 2, 2025

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