This paper will review Statement 45’s potential impact on governments and review existing disclosures in financial reports as well as bond offering statements. The paper will discuss the Statement’s impact on budgets and governmental operations, including collective bargaining. Funding options under Statement 45 will be detailed, including the advantages and disadvantages of irrevocable trusts and OPEB bonds.
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Massachusetts is the first state to require that individuals purchase health insurance, and the first to propose a “Connector,” or state-mandated health insurance market for consumers and small businesses. As part of the well-regarded Colby Hewitt Health Care Series, Pioneer held “A Blueprint for the Future” featuring an in-depth presentation by Health and Human Services Secretary Tim Murphy, as well as presentations by two nationally recognized health policy leaders: Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School and John Goodman, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis. Biographies of the presenters and the moderator, Susan Connelly of Mercer Consulting, can be found on the last page of this transcript.
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Despite three federal laws that prohibit the federal government from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, programs of instruction and instructional materials, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new Pioneer report written by Robert S. Eitel and Kent D. Talbert, two former counsels general to the USDOE.
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“She’s a good girl. She helps me a lot. She has big, big dreams. I don’t have the money, but she has big dreams. I hope she’s going to get everything, but she works so hard. She works so hard in school.”
“Our family is needing to make some really big sacrifices because we believe this is important, and so, we’re basically going to do whatever it takes… Sometimes we look at each other and go ‘I don’t know if I can do it again another month…’”
“A lot of the families have to sacrifice and work multiple jobs… And just scraping together enough money to just make tuition, just the basics.”
“It is discriminatory, that parents who want to choose an alternative to public school for their children, would not in any way receive any compensation for that, whether it be tax credit, whether it be a voucher…”
In the 1840s, nativist movement leaders formed official political parties and local chapters of the national Native American Party (later the American Party), although they continued to be commonly known as the Know-Nothing Party. Politicians sought to insert provisions into state constitutions against Catholics who refused to renounce the pope. The Know-Nothing movement brought bigotry and hatred to a new level of violence and organization.
The party’s legacy endured in the post-Civil War era, with laws and constitutional amendments it supported, still today severely limiting parents’ educational choices. A federal constitutional amendment was proposed by Speaker of the House James Blaine prohibiting money raised by taxation in any State to be under the control of any religious sect; nor shall any money so raised or lands so devoted be divided between religious sects or denominations. These were then named the Blaine Amendments of 1875.
in recent decades, often in response to challenges to school choice programs, the U.S. Supreme Court has demonstrated great interest in examining the issues of educational alternatives and attempts limit parental options. Massachusetts plays a key role in this debate. The Bay State was a key center of the Know-Nothing movement and has the oldest version of Anti-Aid Amendments in the nation, as well as a second such amendment approved in 1917. Two-fifths of Massachusetts residents are Catholic, and its Catholic schools outperform the state’s public schools, which are the best in the nation.
This paper will review Statement 45’s potential impact on governments and review existing disclosures in financial reports as well as bond offering statements. The paper will discuss the Statement’s impact on budgets and governmental operations, including collective bargaining. Funding options under Statement 45 will be detailed, including the advantages and disadvantages of irrevocable trusts and OPEB bonds.
Download Report: The Elephant in the Room: Unfunded Public Employee Health Care Benefits and GASB 45 Public Employee Benefits Series: Part 3
Massachusetts is the first state to require that individuals purchase health insurance, and the first to propose a “Connector,” or state-mandated health insurance market for consumers and small businesses. As part of the well-regarded Colby Hewitt Health Care Series, Pioneer held “A Blueprint for the Future” featuring an in-depth presentation by Health and Human Services Secretary Tim Murphy, as well as presentations by two nationally recognized health policy leaders: Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School and John Goodman, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis. Biographies of the presenters and the moderator, Susan Connelly of Mercer Consulting, can be found on the last page of this transcript.
Download Report: A Blueprint for the Future
Despite three federal laws that prohibit the federal government from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, programs of instruction and instructional materials, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new Pioneer report written by Robert S. Eitel and Kent D. Talbert, two former counsels general to the USDOE.
Download Report: Summary: The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers
The Elephant in the Room: Unfunded Public Employee Health Care Benefits and GASB 45 Public Employee Benefits Series: Part 3
/0 Comments/in Health Care, Pensions, Public Program Reform, Unfunded Liabilities /by Eric Berman and Elizabeth KeatingThis paper will review Statement 45’s potential impact on governments and review existing disclosures in financial reports as well as bond offering statements. The paper will discuss the Statement’s impact on budgets and governmental operations, including collective bargaining. Funding options under Statement 45 will be detailed, including the advantages and disadvantages of irrevocable trusts and OPEB bonds.
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A Blueprint for the Future
/0 Comments/in Transcripts /by Pioneer InstituteMassachusetts is the first state to require that individuals purchase health insurance, and the first to propose a “Connector,” or state-mandated health insurance market for consumers and small businesses. As part of the well-regarded Colby Hewitt Health Care Series, Pioneer held “A Blueprint for the Future” featuring an in-depth presentation by Health and Human Services Secretary Tim Murphy, as well as presentations by two nationally recognized health policy leaders: Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School and John Goodman, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis. Biographies of the presenters and the moderator, Susan Connelly of Mercer Consulting, can be found on the last page of this transcript.
Download Report: A Blueprint for the Future
Summary: The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers
/0 Comments/in Common Core, Education /by Pioneer InstituteDespite three federal laws that prohibit the federal government from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, programs of instruction and instructional materials, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new Pioneer report written by Robert S. Eitel and Kent D. Talbert, two former counsels general to the USDOE.
Download Report: Summary: The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers