• Fixing a Process that No Longer Makes Sense
• Posted By: John M. Bernard |   February 21, 2013
• An Oregon agency found ways to cut the time it takes to do background checks by more than half. With inefficient processes and duplicative services rife in government, that's just the beginning of the journey.
• Categories: Management and HR
• 7 Comments

• Solving a Piece of the OPEB Puzzle
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   February 13, 2013
• A Massachusetts city's approach to cutting the cost of retiree health care might be a way for other jurisdictions to grapple with the problem.
• Categories: Management and HR
• 1 Comments

• Giving Citizens the Tools to Grade Their Governments
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   January 23, 2013
• Washington, D.C., is pioneering a system that takes performance and accountability to a new level.
• Categories: Management and HR ,  Technology

• The Hard Choices on Public Pensions
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   January 7, 2013
• Rhode Island's capital city is addressing the fiscally crippling problems with its retirement system. Can Illinois find the political will to do the same?
• Categories: Management and HR
• 5 Comments

• Setting the Bar Higher for Teachers
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   December 12, 2012
• With a couple of changes, a teachers' union's proposal for rigorous testing for prospective teachers could have a big impact on public education.
• Categories: Management and HR
• 2 Comments

• A Simple (But Hard) Way to Improve Public Pensions
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   November 7, 2012
• Retirement systems could go a long way toward addressing their problems by getting real about their investment returns.
• Categories: Management and HR
• 14 Comments

• The Teachers We Need (and the Ones We Don't)
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   October 22, 2012
• Evaluating teachers based on students' test scores isn't a perfect way to identify the best and the worst. But test scores should be part of the process.
• Categories: Management and HR
• 11 Comments

• Fixing Municipal Finance, by the Book
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   September 20, 2012
• A new guide provides tools to help beleaguered local officials keep their communities out of a fiscal nightmare.
• Categories: Management and HR

• A Mayor’s Roadmap for Reforming Pensions
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   July 16, 2012
• San Diego’s mayor explains how financial catastrophe provided the seeds for major structural changes that the city needed to continue providing services.
• Categories: Management and HR

• How to Reform Pensions at the Ballot Box
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   June 27, 2012
• San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed explains what led up to voters’ approval of major changes to the city’s retirement system.
• Categories: Management and HR
• 3 Comments