Document Library
Click the icons below to search through Pioneer’s reports and documents.
Better Government (109)
- How to Save the MBTA More Than $100 million a year (24956)
- Driving Critical Reforms at DCF: Ideas for a Direction Forward in Massachusetts’ Child and Family Services (17588)
- UMass At A Crossroads Part 3 UMass Growing Dependency On Tuition And Fees And Strategic Recruitment Of Out-Of-State Students (17417)
- UMass At A Crossroads Part 2 Is UMass Expansion Fiscally Sustainable? (15321)
Charter Schools (42)
- Seeds of Achievement: Appletree’s Early Childhood D.C. Charter Schools (17245)
- Innovation Interrupted: How the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 Has Redefined Charter Schooling in Massachusetts (16107)
- Meeting the Commonwealth’s Demand: Lifting the Cap on Charter Public Schools in Massachusetts (15257)
- Preserving Charter School Autonomy (13029)
Convention Center (7)
- Flawed Forecasts: A Critical Look at Convention Center Feasibility Studies (17178)
- Does Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Expansion Really Pay for Itself? (14155)
- Analyzing the Convention Center Authority's Inflated Claims (11966)
- If We Build It Will They Come? And Other Questions About the Proposed Boston Convention Center (4083)
COVID (33)
- Open Letter: COVID-19 Study and Recommendations Task Force established pursuant to Massachusetts Bill H.4672 (6556)
- Remote Learning Resources Guide (8351)
- Connecticut’s Dangerous Game: How the Nation’s Wealthiest State Scared Off Businesses and Worsened Its Fiscal Crisis (11357)
- Shifting to Online Learning in the COVID-19 Spring (9696)
Health Care Policy (Federal) (17)
- 340B Drug Discounts: An Increasingly Dysfunctional Federal Program (34628)
- Healthcare Prices for Common Procedures Are Hard for Consumers to Obtain Survey finds hospitals not prepared to give price information to consumers (19080)
- Whistleblowers Expose the Massachusetts Connector (15177)
- New ACA Medicare Payroll Tax Hits Massachusetts, $1.7 Billion Over 10 Years (14665)
Health Care Policy (MA) (53)
- Consumer Driven Health Care: A New Agenda for Cost Control in Massachusetts (22047)
- Mass Hospitals Weak on Price Transparency (21983)
- Are Drug Prices Driving Healthcare Cost Growth? (21425)
- MA Health Insurers Have Improved Their Consumer Price Transparency Efforts, But Significant Work Remains (20247)
Higher Education (10)
- UMass At A Crossroads Part 3 UMass Growing Dependency On Tuition And Fees And Strategic Recruitment Of Out-Of-State Students (17417)
- UMass At A Crossroads Part 2 Is UMass Expansion Fiscally Sustainable? (15321)
- Differentiating Admission Standards at UMass-Amherst to Meet Out-of-State Enrollment Targets (19647)
- UMass At A Crossroads Part 1 Is The UMass Enrollment Expansion Plan Sustainable? (4623)
Innovations in Medical Care Delivery (9)
- Mayor, Tear Down This Wall: Why Boston’s Ban on Convenient Care Clinics Is Costing Taxpayers Millions (18959)
- First Do No Harm: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Massachusetts’ Medical Device Industry (14894)
- Business Solutions to the Health Care Crunch (15233)
- Nonprofit to For Profit Conversions in Health Care: A Review (4490)
Life Sciences (16)
- 340B Drug Discounts: An Increasingly Dysfunctional Federal Program (34628)
- Are Drug Prices Driving Healthcare Cost Growth? (21425)
- Will New England See Lower Prices from Drug Pricing Transparency Legislation? (21862)
- Transparency in Retail Drug Prices: Easy to Obtain but Accuracy May Be Doubtful (14720)
Pensions (28)
- The Costs of Delaying the Funding of Public Pensions in Massachusetts (15543)
- The Cost of Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Massachusetts Public Retirement Systems (16308)
- The Logic of Pension Valuation: A Response to Robert Novy-Marx (15457)
- MassPensions: How Difficult Is Institutional Transparency? (14818)
Policy Briefs (140)
- Mass Hospitals Weak on Price Transparency (21983)
- How to Save the MBTA More Than $100 million a year (24956)
- Healthcare Prices for Common Procedures Are Hard for Consumers to Obtain Survey finds hospitals not prepared to give price information to consumers (19080)
- Baker's Dozen A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor (16685)
Price Transparency (30)
- Consumer Driven Health Care: A New Agenda for Cost Control in Massachusetts (22047)
- Mass Hospitals Weak on Price Transparency (21983)
- Healthcare Prices for Common Procedures Are Hard for Consumers to Obtain Survey finds hospitals not prepared to give price information to consumers (19080)
- MA Health Insurers Have Improved Their Consumer Price Transparency Efforts, But Significant Work Remains (20247)
Private School Choice (16)
- "And You Shall Teach Them Diligently": The History and Status of Jewish Day Schools in Massachusetts (14840)
- Be Not Afraid: A History of Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts (14793)
- Rhode Island Jewish Day Schools and Scholarship Tax Credits (14572)
- Four Models of Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts (13895)
Public Testimony (55)
- Review of Common Core Math Standards: Testimony to the California Academic Content Standards Commission (23807)
- Testimony to the Utah 2012 Education Interim Committee (20378)
- Testimony to the South Carolina Legislature’s Education Subcommittee in Support of S.604 (14475)
- Testimony before the Joint Committee on Public Service of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Regarding the Fiscal Condition of Local Retirement Systems (23623)
Regulations and Permitting (3)
- Driving Critical Reforms at DCF: Ideas for a Direction Forward in Massachusetts’ Child and Family Services (17588)
- Testimony Before the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight Regarding Government Transparency (16450)
- How Occupational Licensing Laws Reduce State and Local Tax Revenues: The Public Finance Case for Occupational Licensing Reform (11731)
Unfunded Liabilities (32)
- The Costs of Delaying the Funding of Public Pensions in Massachusetts (15543)
- The Cost of Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Massachusetts Public Retirement Systems (16308)
- The Logic of Pension Valuation: A Response to Robert Novy-Marx (15457)
- MassPensions: How Difficult Is Institutional Transparency? (14818)
US History (15)
- Imperiling the Republic: The Fate of U.S. History Instruction under Common Core (28482)
- Shortchanging the Future: The Crisis of History and Civics in American Schools (22886)
- The Rise and Fall of the Study of American History in Massachusetts (18616)
- Pioneer Institute Report on History in Schools (18339)
Voc Tech Schools (9)
- Vocational-Technical Education in Massachusetts (17501)
- Hands-On Achievement: Why Massachusetts Vocational Technical Schools Have Low Dropout Rates (16271)
- Expanding Access to Vocational-Technical Education in Massachusetts (15863)
- Filling the Skills Gap: Massachusetts Vocational-Technical Schools and Business Partnerships (15549)