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Public statement on new federal rule eliminating “skimming” of dues from caregivers’ Medicaid paymentsMay 16, 2019 - 11:00 am
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How Massachusetts Showed the Way on Education ReformMay 16, 2019 - 10:48 am
Moving Forward into the Future: Enter the Better Government CompetitionMay 16, 2019 - 10:30 am
Presenting Pioneer’s New Annual Report: “Shaping Our Future”May 16, 2019 - 9:01 am
Making Healthcare Prices AccessibleMay 14, 2019 - 11:01 am
A Rational Voice on the State of American Higher Education and the Cost CrisisMay 9, 2019 - 9:39 am
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How Massachusetts Showed the Way on Education Reform
/0 Comments/in Charter Schools, Common Core, Oped: Common Core, Oped: Education, Oped: US History /by Jamie GassBy Jamie Gass & Charles Chieppo Read this op-ed in The American Conservative We are now nearly four decades beyond the publication of A Nation at Risk, a federal report that indicted the “rising tide of mediocrity” and initiated a well-deserved period of hand-wringing about K-12 public education in the United States. Massachusetts was the only state to respond to the call to create a school system that would be among the best in the world. Sadly, now even the Bay State is retreating from the policies that delivered its historic success. The landmark Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993, which was entirely state-led, pushed academic content and high standards over the Bush I and Clinton administrations’ agenda of K-12 […]
Moving Forward into the Future: Enter the Better Government Competition
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Blog, Blog: Better Government /by Editorial StaffSummer 2019 is starting and so far, the year has been full of surprises. Here at Pioneer, we’ve looking closely at how to move people and goods now, soon, and in the years to come. Through our Better Government Competition, we’re gathering ideas from around the country. Below are just some of the biggest headlines of 2019, and challenges related to how we’ll keep moving forward. Send us your ideas to improve transportation – you could win $10,000! This year Amazon Prime has started delivering its own packages (and possibly others as well), which means that by the end of 2019 there will be more delivery trucks on the road, perhaps fewer people driving to shop, and new traffic challenges. […]
Presenting Pioneer’s New Annual Report: “Shaping Our Future”
/0 Comments/in Blog, Featured /by Editorial StaffWe at Pioneer Institute work every day to promote policies that result in better school options, broader access to affordable healthcare, improved public services and infrastructure, and a more attractive climate for innovators and capital. In Pioneer’s 2018 Annual Report (available to download or view online here), we share our work to drive this agenda in the Commonwealth and across the country. We share progress at the MBTA, even as much work remains. And we share success in expanding economic opportunity. Download Pioneer Institute’s 2018 Annual Report or visit our online version. In this report back to you, our community of supporters, we change our format to focus on impact. We do this understanding that we cannot control the future […]
Making Healthcare Prices Accessible
/in Featured, Healthcare, Press Releases: Health Care, Press Releases: Healthcare Transparency, Transparency /by Editorial StaffToday, Pioneer Institute filed a Public Comment with the federal government urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to launch a much-needed national effort to make healthcare price transparency consumer friendly and easily accessible to both insured and uninsured consumers around the country. The Pioneer Comment was filed in response to a proposed rulemaking by HHS that seeks to improve the availability of actual healthcare prices, including prices that insurers and hospitals negotiate. Pioneer informed HHS of its numerous surveys and studies that demonstrate how difficult it is for consumers to obtain healthcare prices before services are obtained. Jim Stergios, Pioneer’s Executive Director, said “Suppressing price information leads to the inevitable result that healthcare dollars are misallocated because price […]
A Rational Voice on the State of American Higher Education and the Cost Crisis
/0 Comments/in Blog: Education, Blog: Higher Education, Featured, News /by Editorial StaffAt a time of increasing disruption in the higher education marketplace, Pioneer Institute is working to ensure that our 2-, 4- and advanced degree-granting institutions — which are the envy of the world — innovate and address spiraling tuition costs. Too many students — 1 in 8 — are grappling with overwhelming college loan debt. Some smaller private colleges are struggling to survive or right-size in recognition of shrinking demand. Meanwhile public institutions suffer from an acute case of “empire building,” erecting new dorms and building out residential services that will require billions of additional dollars, even as the Commonwealth’s high school graduating classes are declining in number. Too often the proposals put forth are poorly crafted and aimed at political ends rather […]