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DeSeve identifies seven primary lessons from implementation of the Recovery Act.
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Two professional associations, the American Society for
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Congress is considering expanding the transparency provisions first developed for the Recovery Act to all federal...
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With roughly $25 billion flowing out of the stimulus package to various energy efficiency programs, there's a compelling need to measure and evaluate energy savings.
A new report from the Alliance to Save Energy asks: "Are taxpayers, ratepayers, shareholders...
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With the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 and the extensive reporting requirements stemming from this new legislation, government managers are faced with even greater demands for fiscal accountability and transparency.
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Highlighting a quote from Colorado's Gov. Bill Ritter, today's New York Times explores state reactions to being bypassed in the first round of the Race to the Top contest. The quote: "It was like the Olympic Games, and we were an American skater with...
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Anyone who's interested in how -- and how well -- stimulus dollars are being spent should read the exchange between Veronique de Rugy of George Mason University's Mercatus Center and Nate Silver of 538.com about some pivotal data and quality issues. ...
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Yesterday, we mentioned that some in Hawaii think the state's current educational power-sharing arrangement might impede its ability to achieve the goals it set in the Race to the Top competition. We've just gotten word that some reforms to the current...
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Back when we started to evaluate the management of state and local governments about twenty years ago, we noticed a curious phenomenon. Governments that were weak in this field, tended to be relatively satisfied with what they were doing. By contrast,...
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Around 11:00 this morning, the winners of the Race to the Top competition for education-oriented stimulus dollars were announced. According to the Washington Post’s website, they are Tennessee and Delaware.
According to the Post, “Education Secretary...
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We wanted to catch you up on two important reports about the stimulus that came out of the Inspector General community in recent weeks.
For a sobering account of capacity issues at the federal level in the administration and oversight of Recovery Act...
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We've been concerned about the disconnect that sometimes exists between stimulus oversight offices and state performance measurement efforts. On March 15th, we wrote about this a bit, and the following day, we looked at how Maryland has connected its...
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Shortly after we posted our last blog entry ("Before the Phone Starts Ringing. . .) we heard from Eric W Alborg the Communications Director for the California Recovery Task Force.
He had some very germane thoughts about the federal government's Recovery.gov...
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