The Pacheco Law was enacted by the Massachusetts legislature in 1993. The law, now M.G.L. ch. 7 sections 52-55, set up a series of tests that a state agency must pass before it can award a contract to a private company to perform services that had been previously performed by state employees.
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Authors: Geoffrey Segal, Adrian Moore, Adam Summers
When faced with insufficient revenues, state governments typically have four options: increase taxes, scale back expenditures, spend down reserves, or seek ways to provide services more efficiently through contracting with private providers. Massachusetts, however, has only the first three options available; it is the only state in the nation that has virtually outlawed the privatization of public services.
Competition & Government Services: Can Massachusetts Still Afford the Pacheco Law
Judge Dolan discussed his findings at a recent Pioneer Forum, with commentary by attorneys Edward P. Ryan, Jr., immediate past president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and David Steelman of the National Center for State Courts, a management consultant to courts around the country. The remarks of each are excerpted below.
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“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…’”
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“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.
The Pacheco Law was enacted by the Massachusetts legislature in 1993. The law, now M.G.L. ch. 7 sections 52-55, set up a series of tests that a state agency must pass before it can award a contract to a private company to perform services that had been previously performed by state employees.
Download Report: Competition & Government Services: Can Massachusetts Still Afford the Pacheco Law
Authors: Geoffrey Segal, Adrian Moore, Adam Summers
When faced with insufficient revenues, state governments typically have four options: increase taxes, scale back expenditures, spend down reserves, or seek ways to provide services more efficiently through contracting with private providers. Massachusetts, however, has only the first three options available; it is the only state in the nation that has virtually outlawed the privatization of public services.
Competition & Government Services: Can Massachusetts Still Afford the Pacheco Law
Judge Dolan discussed his findings at a recent Pioneer Forum, with commentary by attorneys Edward P. Ryan, Jr., immediate past president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and David Steelman of the National Center for State Courts, a management consultant to courts around the country. The remarks of each are excerpted below.
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Competition & Government Services: Can Massachusetts Still Afford the Pacheco Law
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Municipal Management /by Geoffrey Segal, Adrian Moore and Adam SummersThe Pacheco Law was enacted by the Massachusetts legislature in 1993. The law, now M.G.L. ch. 7 sections 52-55, set up a series of tests that a state agency must pass before it can award a contract to a private company to perform services that had been previously performed by state employees.
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Competition and Government Services: Can Massachusetts Still Afford the Pacheco Law?
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Press Releases, Press Releases: Government /by Editorial StaffAuthors: Geoffrey Segal, Adrian Moore, Adam Summers
When faced with insufficient revenues, state governments typically have four options: increase taxes, scale back expenditures, spend down reserves, or seek ways to provide services more efficiently through contracting with private providers. Massachusetts, however, has only the first three options available; it is the only state in the nation that has virtually outlawed the privatization of public services.
Competition & Government Services: Can Massachusetts Still Afford the Pacheco Law
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/0 Comments/in Transcripts /by Pioneer InstituteJudge Dolan discussed his findings at a recent Pioneer Forum, with commentary by attorneys Edward P. Ryan, Jr., immediate past president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and David Steelman of the National Center for State Courts, a management consultant to courts around the country. The remarks of each are excerpted below.
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