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…the newly formed Health Policy Commission–the Commonwealth seems to believe if we just had one more group of experts we could crack this healthcare nut. Isn’t the definition of insanity…
…that may be something that could be done in a telehealth visit, but right now that’s not that common. So that’s the number one thing I think that was missing…
The Middle Cities Initiative helps the Commonwealth’s older cities facing economic, demographic, and political challenges. The Initiative develops and disseminates concrete policy reforms for local and state officials in four…
PioneerPublic seeks limited, accountable government by promoting competitive delivery of public services, elimination of unnecessary regulation, and a focus on core government functions. Current initiatives promote reform of public employee…
…convincing evidence that UI’s problems are serious, but solvable. “Our UI system gets abused by individuals and companies alike,” explains co-author John O’Leary, former director of the Commonwealth’s Division of…
…Anderson, describes the two pillars for setting and maintaining a culture of excellence at PCA: a core student group and targeted teacher recruitment and selection. At PCA, Beth sees single…
…U.S. history-rich core knowledge curriculum that featured University of Virginia Professor Emeritus E.D. Hirsch, Jr., and Andrew J. Rotherham, former Clinton administration aide and co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education….
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/05/health-reform-reactions Times like this separate the true health reform wonks from the wannabes. Did you spend your weekend poring through H.4070, An Act relative to Health Care Quality Improvement and…
…lot of duplicative and competing campuses across the system all expanding across multiple dimensions, maximizing costs in the long run. What Massachusetts needs is to refocus on its core customers…
…the real lessons of Massachusetts’ experiment. The core question then-Gov. Romney was trying to answer was this: Should Massachusetts continue to pay hospitals more than $1 billion a year to…
…the death penalty, but their core principle is not much different from Diocletian’s: The state knows best. What fraction of the local economy should health care consume? How fast should…
…core functions, such as upgrading infrastructure. It calls for government to remove barriers to hiring by cutting the tangle of regulation, streamline permitting, and make the corporate tax structure predictable…
…overshadowed the real lessons of Massachusetts’ experiment. The core question then-Gov. Romney was trying to answer was this: Should Massachusetts continue to pay hospitals more than $1 billion a year…
…so in regard to eight “core” functions of state government (functions common to most states): K-12 educa- tion, higher education, highways, transit, state police, the judiciary, corrections, and financial administration….
…increased at a uniform rate. There is no deep-reaching effort to address the core causes of the state’s structural deficit – healthcare and the cost of public employees’ retirement benefits….
…develops and disseminates concrete policy reforms for local and state officials the Commonwealth’s older cities facing economic, demographic, and political challenges. Pioneer’s research focuses on four core service areas: financial…
…Massachusetts’ use of state oversight boards can help clean up the messes made by poor management in our cities, but BUT don’t solve their core issues. The challenges that Massachusetts…
…content-based academic standards that include U.S. history and civics instruction. In 2010, Pioneer held an event on the importance of a U.S. history-rich core knowledge curriculum that featured University of…
…core services. Since 2007, the Institute has produced 14 reports related to municipal management of finances, education, public safety and economic development programs. Our most recent publication was A Practitioner’s…
…record who want to explore a new career track. They collaborate with our senior staff in core organizational functions such as media and public relations, development and institutional outreach. Some…
…upward mobility — a core value of American society. We are relegating City of Lawrence to permanent ward of the state status. For a long time, nearly 100 percent of…
…it worked? Brian Mooney (here and here) sure thinks so, and he is partially right. But on the core issue of cost containment, it has not worked because we did…
…the rest of the state, and the international achievement gap whereby the percentage of students who are advanced in core subjects in the top-performing countries far outstrips the percentage among…
…local officials what they are doing. It could save serious money that can go to the core work of schools—teaching and learning. (But if you get your food services contracted…
…raising student achievement have come in the state’s 70 or so Commonwealth charter schools and its 27 regional career-vocational technical schools. Currently, there are 63 CVT schools in the Commonwealth…
News items relating to Pioneer’s core issues of education, better government, and economic opportunity appear in the sections below. These articles are updated instantly from Massachusetts media outlets across the…
…overstate the time-difference between the US and other countries as a core reason for our falling behind on international assessments. Consider Aaron Benavot’s 2005 UNESCO report, “A global study of…
…Plan for Boston.” Its core message was nested in the dozens of pages of the state’s landmark 1993 Education Reform Act, along with high-quality standards and accountability through teacher and…
…have a tax credit for about $2,500 for an adult. I think a family of four could get about $8,000 and that would buy the core insurance that we want…
…on videotape from Beth on core challenges and how PCA has met them, specifically: How the school’s culture is established and maintained Teacher retention in a school that has set…
