Articles include:
1. The Case Against Universal Preschool,
2. Building Schools with Private Dollars,
3. San Francisco's Decentralized Schools, and
4. Pricey Preschool in Quebec.

Other articles include: Second Thoughts on School Impact Fees; Who's Afraid of Foreign Ownership?; Another "F" for Air Security; States Selling Toll Roads; What Price Free WiFi?; Uncle Sam: Louisiana's Next Real Estate Baron?; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.

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(11/1/05) With the state falling into an ever-deepening transportation crisis, a new Reason Foundation report proposes changing the way California finances highway projects and demonstrates how large-scale highway projects, funded entirely or largely with toll revenues instead of taxpayer dollars, could be developed to add highway capacity that will otherwise never be built.

Full Text | Reason's Privatization Center

(6/16/05) Taxpayers nationwide face the daunting likelihood that they'll be required to bail out government pension systems. This new Reason study finds that traditional government retirement plans encourage irresponsible decision-making and chronic under-funding, allowing politicians to curry favor with unions by doling out excessive benefit increases at taxpayer expense. The study offers a variety of strategies for reform, such as shifting new government employees to 401(k)-style defined-contribution plans and passing laws requiring voter approval for any future benefit increases.

Full Text | Policy Summary | Press Release | Reason's Privatization Center

(5/19/05) This Reason Foundation report shows the offshore outsourcing monster that American workers fear, and politicians are drafting legislation to defend against, has been greatly exaggerated. Between 1996 and 2003, offshore outsourcing was responsible for just 0.9 percent of the jobs lost in mass layoffs in the United States. The study says a more imminent threat to jobs is outforcing, poor policies coupled with high tax rates that force companies to seek out friendlier business climates.

Full Text | Policy Summary | Press Release

(4/20/05) Articles include:
1. Private Prisoner Care in Michigan,
2. Politics vs. Patient Care,
3. Who’s Afraid of Specialty Hospitals?, and
4. Trade or Aid? Helping the world’s poor.

Other articles include: Texas Lands $7.2 Billion Private Toll-Road Investment; Toll Truck Lanes Gaining Momentum; Building for the Future in California; Unions Try to Discredit Education Outsourcing; 50th Anniversary of Competition in Federal Government; 2004 Competitive Sourcing Results; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.

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(3/2/05) As next week’s Los Angeles mayoral election nears, Reason has outlined solutions to several critical issues facing the city, including reducing traffic congestion, improving the Los Angeles Unified School District, improving the transit system, using competition to improve city services, and better managing city assets. A mayor that can make real progress in these areas without raising taxes or fees is going to create new jobs and make Los Angeles a better place to live.

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(2/12/05) This new report from the Reason Foundation and the Independence Institute demonstrates the potential savings that Colorado lawmakers can utilize to address the current state budget deficit, while achieving greater results for the taxpayers. It contains a variety of available policy and budgetary options and shows that there are options for Colorado’s government to balance the budget in a fiscally prudent manner without raising taxes or gutting the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR).

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(2/2/05) This study by Reason's Geoffrey Segal for the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy shows how quickly Virginia’s state budget has grown over the past ten years and outlines several ideas for legislative and executive action that can be taken to better manage this spending. Without the management tools and actions outlined in the study, Virginia will face the need for another tax increase in only a few short years.

Full Text | Reason's Privatization Center

For the past 20 years, Reason's Annual Privatization Report has chronicled and analyzed the most important developments in privatization, outsourcing, and government reform. This year's 20th anniversary edition of APR recognizes the tremendous advances in government reform over the last two decades and features special contributions by several pioneering policymakers and researchers at the forefront of privatization and government reform, including Margaret Thatcher, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, and Reason founder Robert Poole, Jr.

APR 2006 Homepage | Full Text PDF | Special Excerpt | E-mail the Editor | Reason's Privatization and Government Reform Center

(10/20/05) This study finds that the adoption of performance-based budgeting and an activity-based prioritization funding model would help Colorado decisionmakers to more easily identify the governmental activities most important to Coloradoans and make difficult trade-off and cost-benefit decisions. It would result in the provision of better, more efficient services while allowing Colorado to protect taxpayers and maintain fiscal responsibility.

Full Text | Reason's Privatization Center

(10/14/05) Reason policy analysts have highlighted "innovative strategies to encourage public-private partnerships and introduce private capital to help get Mississippi and Louisiana up and running again" in this series of special reports.

Full Series | Reason's Privatization Center

(6/2/05) The recent $1.83 billion lease of the Chicago Skyway has government officials across the country examining the potential benefits of selling or leasing their own toll roads and bridges. While privatizing existing toll facilities is a viable option that can often yield large financial profits, a new Reason study warns the "devil is the details" and offers a comprehensive guide to help policymakers determine if privatization is the right step and to ensure that the long-term lease agreement is advantageous to motorists.

Full Text PDF | Press Release | Reason's Transportation Resource Center

(5/19/05) Earlier this year, Reason Director of Transportation Studies Bob Poole showed how large-scale highway projects, funded entirely or largely with toll revenues instead of taxpayer dollars, could be developed to add highway capacity that will otherwise never be built in California. This week Reason Director of Government Reform George Passantino testified about the concept to the California State Senate on the effort.

Full Testimony | Reason's Transportation Resource Center

(4/20/05) Florida has been a leader in competitive sourcing, and the state’s experience over the past three governorships transcends party lines. Since Gov. Jeb Bush took office in 1999, Florida has engaged in 138 competitive sourcing projects ranging from prison food service to maintenance in state parks. According to this new report from Reason's Geoffrey Segal, Florida should stay the course and look for opportunities to make the state's contracting process even better.

Full Text | Reason's Privatization Center

(4/5/05) Reason's Adrian Moore recently appeared on the Corrections Connection News Network in a debate on prison privatization and related costs and potential savings for corrections departments.

Click here to listen online.

(3/14) Articles include:
1. The Bodybuilder’s Guide to Government Reform,
2. Government by Network: The new public governance,
3. Efficiency at the Gate: How Florida is making government leaner and smarter,
4. Battered but Breathing: Bringing competition to Washington, and
5. What’s in the Government’s Attic.

Other articles include: Cleaning House with Comprehensive Reform; Chicago Skyway Sold for $1.8 Billion; Managed Lanes Advance Across the Country; Privatization Speeds Port Modernization; Catching the Aquaculture Wave; The Rise of Education Management Organizations; Privatization Briefs; and Who, What, Where.

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