The purpose of this report is to explore ways to reduce expenditures for the public school employee health insurance program. The question is whether the $1 billion dollar per year program is a bane in adding to the depth of the budget deficit or a boon in providing clues to reduce expenditures for all of the state’s health insurance programs costing over $10 billion per year.
Higher Education
A Double “Return” on Education
From across the political spectrum, voters rural and urban and suburban, everyone I talk to has a theory about what has gone so wrong with American education. From cellphones to laptops, the culture wars and the pandemic, teacher pay and teacher burnout, weak discipline and bad curriculum to collapsing standards, there are no shortage of...
October 2, 2026