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Do We Need a New Funding Source for Public Education to Improve Quality?
States should consider classifying teachers as state, rather than local, employees, raise teacher salaries and accept the full cost of teacher salaries. Such a plan would shift collective bargaining to…
Supply-Side Strategies to Reduce Medical Costs
Insurance is ultimately a demand-management financing vehicle, and represents only about half of the $4 trillion United States national expenditure on healthcare. This article flips the market analysis over…
Creating a Value-Driven Environment: Avoiding The, “Should haves….”
“I understand what you did, but you should have…..” These types of statements are troublesome because they fail to recognize the diversity of values, and the diversity of people, in…
Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop To Drink… SDG 6 and India
India is facing one of its major and most serious water crises. The Modi government needs to keep up its current enthusiasm and upbeat tempo in order to continue with…
The Success of Government
The Merit System Principles are intended to insure a high quality of civil service. Unfortunately, in today’s atmosphere, some of these tenets have been seriously dishonored. The purpose of this…
Optimism In a Time of Political Chaos
Our current politics, to put it mildly, are chaotic. How should those of us working in public service feel? Public administration is grounded in fact, professionalism and rationality; it is…
The Paradox of Performance Pay
This is to call attention to a paradox that impedes efforts to improve government performance. A practice effectively universal in successful businesses is pay for performance to reward high performing…
An Intentional Cause or Not? Shinning a New Light on Diversity in Illinois
The newly elected Illinois Governor, JB Pritzker, enacted recent legislation regarding diversity. This, combined with the unprecedented appointment of women and minorities to key positions earlier in Pritzker’s administration, may…
The Leader-Manager: Understanding The Complete Role
: When exploring leadership in public administration, we often see the terms leader and manager presented as if they were unrelated concepts. To succeed, organizations need both leaders and managers,…
Cost-Cutting-Edge Innovations For Infrastructure Finance
This article describes cost-cutting-edge federal fiscal strategies to get more construction bang for the buck, finance cleaner local water systems and dangerous bridge replacements with non-recurring federal assistance and also…
Marrying Technology And The Public Sector
Technology should not frustrate constituents who are reliant on their local government for assistance. With substantive changes to technology, information and accessibility can work simultaneously to provide the user with…
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