MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA
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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…
Highlights from the 24th Annual Better Government Awards Gala
Watch video clips below of Pioneer Institute's 24th Annual…
Fed Up With Faulty Fare Collection: Part II
Fed Up With Faulty Fare Collection
Part II: New Ways to Collect…
Report Showing MBTA Pension Fund Performance “Too Good To Be True” Reinforces Pioneer Research
BOSTON - Stories in The Boston Globe ("Madoff whistle-blower:…
Pioneer Institute Statement on MBAE PARCC/MCAS Study
Recently, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE)…
Pioneer and You – Together We Can Fix the T
Pioneer has been attacked in a recent radio (WBZ, WEEI, and elsewhere)…
Mass Hospitals Weak on Price Transparency
Pioneer Institute surveyed 22 out of approximately 66 Massachusetts acute care hospitals and 10 free-standing clinics seeking prices for one common procedure - an MRI of the left knee without contrast. While Pioneer was ultimately able to get the information from all 10 clinics and 21 of the 22 hospitals, the process was time consuming, confusing and replete with long rounds of telephone tag.
Survey: Price Information Difficult to Obtain From Massachusetts Hospitals
View media coverage of this report on WCVB-TV 5 Investigates:…
A Pretty Much Guaranteed Free Ride
There's no such thing as a free ride.
Ask any accountant and…
Fixing Our Troubled Justice System – 2015 Better Government Awards Gala
This Wednesday evening, Pioneer Institute is recognizing the…
MBTA Reform – The Case of Full, Final and Binding Interest Arbitration
A study of thousands of pages of interest arbitration documents stored in Superior Court argues that full, final and binding interest arbitration involving the MBTA circumvents the power of all three branches of government and leaves a single, unelected individual in the role of decision-maker on contract disagreements with tens of millions of dollars at stake.
Fed up with Faulty Fare Collection
The Problem: Angry Customers and Less Revenue
Last Saturday…
Final, Binding Arbitration Major Obstacle to MBTA Accountability & Performance
Uniquely unaccountable arbitration at MBTA, if unchanged, will…
Massachusetts Financial Disclosures – Weak and Out of Reach
In the last five years, 250 public servants in Massachusetts…
What Court Documents Show About Compensation at the MBTA vs. Peer Communities
Introduction
As the Baker Administration works with the state…
Why Massachusetts Should Abandon the PARCC Tests & Common Core
It is difficult to find any public analysis and comments by teachers,…
MassDOT Relocation Proposal Gives Way to More Pressing Issues
The Baker administration has recently abandoned a proposal to…
A Tale of Two Transparencies
Recently, we wrote about the redemption of Secretary of State…
Support & Defend: The K-12 Education of Military-Connected Children
In-depth analysis of how the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) provides high-quality education to more than 84,000 eligible Military-Connected Children in more than 190 schools around the world and scores above the national averages on nearly all standardized assessments. This report also examines efforts to expand that success to Military-Connected Children attending non-DoDEA schools.
The Convention Center Authority’s Inflated Claims
In the wake of our recent brief, Analyzing the Convention Center…
Post-Olympic Real Estate Implications of the Boston 2024 Proposal
Two weeks ago, a series of documents published by a number of…
New Report: The Successes and Challenges of Educating Military-Connected Children
Study finds college and career readiness focus of Common Core…
Press Release: New Book Aims to Make Mass. National Leader in Economic Mobility
Calls for changes in education, healthcare, the delivery of public…
MBTA Experiencing Severe Delays in Transparency
This winter the MBTA proved that it is capable of publishing…
Analyzing the Convention Center Authority’s Inflated Claims
The analysis reveals that only eight events booked at the BCEC over the next 13 years - not 18 as the MCCA has claimed - have escape clauses that allow them to go elsewhere if expansion doesn’t go forward. It also finds that despite claims that the facility would not be able to host the BIO conference again without expansion, the show is booked five times between 2021 and 2029 without expansion-related escape clauses.
The Single Biggest Obstacle to Reform at the MBTA
post by Gregory W. Sullivan & Matthew Blackbourn
In…
Pioneer Institute Statement on MBAE PARCC/MCAS Study
The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE) continues its advocacy for Common Core and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a federally funded testing consortium, with the release of a study concluding that Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) performance is not an indicator of preparedness for higher education success.
Why Massachusetts Should Abandon the PARCC tests and the 2011 Coleman et al English Language Arts Standards on which the MCAS Tests are Based
Stotsky first describes her qualifications, as well as the lack of relevant qualifications in Common Core’s standards writers and in most of the members of Common Core’s Validation Committee, on which she served in 2009-2010.