A-F grading for schools – still a bone of contention
By Patrick B. McGuigan and Stacy Martin | CapitolBeatOK
OKLAHOMA CITY — Restore Oklahoma Public Education, a conservative activist group focused on what it deems accelerating federal efforts to erode local control of public education, has continued to criticizethe state government’s move toward the new “A-F” grading system for schools.
KEEGAN: Public pension ‘best practices’ omit 1 thing: How do we pay benefits?
By Frank Keegan | State Budget Solutions
Municipal and state pensions are at least $4 trillion in the hole as the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems meets next week. Funds ended 2011 with the first year-over-year decline since 2009 after failing to make up for Great Recession losses. And three studies released last month confirm [...]
KEEGAN: Municipal, state workers should take their pension money and run, fast
Public employees should take their pension money now and run to avoid the risk of getting reduced benefits — or nothing — in the future. It’s the best deal for them and for taxpayers.
Read More →KEEGAN: This plan could save municipal, state workers’ pension checks
Hey, young public employees, what are you going to do when your pension checks bounce after you paid in for decades? That is what will happen in many — maybe all — states and municipalities sooner or later if they do not reform right now. If you want to see the future, just look at Illinois. One citizen there did, and came up with a real reform plan that might work.
Read More →Difference between incentives, private investment – disclosure
By Eric K. Ward | The Nerve
COLUMBIA, S.C .— Imagine being an investment broker without the information necessary to keep clients apprised of how their assets are performing: no price-to-earnings data, no quarterly profit statements, no tax liability numbers.
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