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President Trump’s plan to improve government efficiency and effectiveness is standard operating procedure. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt, every President has sought to leave their mark on the federal bureaucracy. Some…
Why was the ACA more efficient than the American Health Care Act? For starters, the individual mandate. The mandate stopped the “death spiral” trying to obtain fairly priced insurance by…
The May/June 2017 issue of PAR has a Perspective article titled, The Disappearance of the Public Sector? The main points are: Public sector values emphasize social justice, fairness, equity and quality of…
Now that campuses have settled into a post-commencement lull, it is a perfect opportunity for professors to rethink the way they facilitate and structure their seminars and small lectures. This…
One of the toughest challenges for those operating in public/private nonprofit sectors will be to find, recruit and enlist young adults as volunteer board/council/committee member-leaders. With today’s aging workforce and…
A few months ago, The State, a South Carolina newspaper, ran an article titled, “SC Bracing for Cost of Aging Population.” It would be reasonably easy to find similar commentary…
As I’ve written in previous columns, research conducted by my organization, the Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement, has revealed leadership and managing change is the number one driver of…
The Nevada legislature recently debated teacher evaluation. Currently 80 percent of a teacher’s rating is based on observation; the remaining 20 percent is split between state testing data and locally-set…
Most pundits would say we are living in a time when the nation is as politically divided as it could be. Our political parties also have divided factions. It appears…
Education has been a part of the United States history since its inception. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Rush were all in favor of public education. They felt poor…
Is America Experiencing a Migration Crisis?
America is a nation of migrants. Even before there was a United States, this land’s inhabitants were migratory. Migration has done more to create demographic shifts in America than any…
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