Death and Taxes

JANUARY 30, 2018

In November 2017, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) issued an Exposure Draft entitled Accounting for Interest Cost during the Period of Construction. The GASB is proposing a standard that […] The post Of Interest to You appeared first on Death and Taxes.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 30, 2018

The International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) developed the Spectrum of Public Participation to help clarify the role of the public in the project planning and decision-making process. The framework differentiates between the different levels of participation depending on the project goals, time frames resources and level of concern or priority.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JANUARY 30, 2018

How can program managers within public agencies — whether local, state or federal — use random assignment (in other words, a lottery) within programs to build evidence that can strengthen results and improve customer service? A good example comes from South Carolina. Its Medicaid program is administered through Managed Care Organizations, which offer different health care plans to Medicaid beneficiaries.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JANUARY 22, 2018

Technology has changed the way we do pretty much everything in our daily lives. With technology-based transportation and convenience services such as Uber, Lyft, ZipCar, Instacart for groceries and Amazon for basically everything else, the ways people are getting around cities is changing drastically. These services dramatically reduce the need for people to use their personal vehicles, and this could mean a change in the future of land use in urban areas.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JANUARY 25, 2018

As the new report “ Putting the Experiment Back in the Experimental Sites Initiative ” discusses, the U.S. Department of Education’s “Ex Sites” initiative — in place in one form or another since the mid-1980s — is designed to allow the Department to grant flexibility to institutions of higher education to test and evaluate potential federal policy changes, including around federal student aid rules.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JANUARY 11, 2018

The partnership between Stanford University and the San Francisco Unified School District is one of the best examples of a partnership between a university and a school district. Launched in 2009, the partnership matches researchers from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education with district leaders to create research projects to directly inform the school district’s work in terms of policies, practice and scholarship to maximize student outcomes.

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