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FosterEd Works Across Sectors to Meet Children’s Needs
Research consistently shows that students in foster care have extremely poor educational outcomes. Their outcomes are poor even when compared to the educational outcomes of other at-risk student subgroups, like…
The Political Dynamics Behind Government Budgeting Process
Different disciplines have different perspectives on government budgeting. Regardless of those perspectives, a government budget becomes a legal document once it is approved by the legislature. As the budgetary process…
BIDs Can Be the Catalyst For Social Equity
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have the capacity to be a catalyst to promote fairness and opportunity within neighborhoods and throughout an entire city. BIDs not only address security, marketing, beautification…
Frances Perkins: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Americans jealously guard the social safety net—Social Security, unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws and workplace health/safety standards. But few know how these came to be. Frances Perkins, the first female…
Embracing Failure
Too often employees and organizations are judged by their failures. There are some professions where we expect perfect performance. Yet even in those cases failures sometimes happen. For the rest…
Understanding Customers in the Public Sector
As government continues to look for ways to innovate and meet public expectations, one often hears that we should be more like the private sector. While the uses of balanced…
A President’s Education: How Much is Enough?
Currently, there is much debate about the requirements to become our nation’s top public servant, the president of the United States. I recently heard a conversation about whether a particular…
In Pursuit of Civil Rights: An Iterative and Sustained Struggle for Progress
Despite countless advancements during the 20th century, a number of civil rights issues have re-emerged. Affirmative action, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights, reproductive rights, immigration and voting have again…
Public Administration, Community Development and Social Equity
Community development is the bettering of political, social and economic institutions. But often development theory and practice is overly concerned with only the building of economic assets in a community.…
Promoting Citizen Participation in Public Sector Reforms
Major comprehensive strategies to transform the public sector in Ethiopia, Haiti and Mozambique have considered stakeholders and civic participation. However, recent government administrative reforms show little evidence of community participation…
Turning to Emergency Management
If you direct the resources of a public organization, you might someday be pivotal in the response to and recovery from emergencies or disasters. In my decade as an emergency…