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Author Archives: Patrick Lester
AFSCME, Progressive Groups Criticize Pay for Success
One of the nation’s largest public sector unions, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), released a report on December 9 criticizing pay-for-success and social impact bonds. The report also listed a number of smaller progressive organizations … Continue reading
Posted in Social Impact Bonds / Pay for Success
Partisan Turn on Welfare Reform May Jeopardize Evidence Provisions
In what was billed as his first major policy speech since assuming leadership of the House, Speaker Paul Ryan on December 3 announced that welfare reform would be one of the chamber’s top priorities in the coming year and that … Continue reading
Posted in Children and Families
K-12 Education Bill Advances Evidence-based Policy, Replaces i3
Evidence-based policy will soon receive a significant boost from a major K-12 education bill that is nearing the finish line. This week the Senate is expected to pass a major rewrite of the Bush era No Child Left Behind Act, … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Early Pay for Success Results Prompt Debate over the Meaning of ‘Success’
An experiment in performance-based financing for government services, called pay for success, has raised questions about what should count as success after mixed results were announced at two demonstration sites in July and October. The sites — one in Rikers … Continue reading
Posted in Social Impact Bonds / Pay for Success
The Other Pay for Success: The Promise and Peril of Paying for Outcomes
Social impact bonds and pay-for-success are often viewed as synonymous. They shouldn’t be. There is another version of pay-for-success that has been around much longer, is far more widespread, and may be the future of social impact bonds. Outcomes-based funding … Continue reading
Posted in Social Impact Bonds / Pay for Success
Report: Social Innovation Fund’s Early Results Are Promising
The Social Innovation Fund, an Obama administration initiative that funds promising community-based programs and subjects them to rigorous evaluations to determine their impact, has produced five project evaluations with positive, evidence-based findings, according to a report released today by the … Continue reading
Posted in Social Innovation Fund
Senate Committee Passes Evidence Commission Bill, Congress Proposes Defunding i3 and SIF
By voice vote, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today passed legislation (S. 991) that would create a bipartisan commission to recommend how Congress and the administration should expand the use of data to evaluate federal programs and … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Evidence, Social Innovation Fund
Driving Results in Cities Could Influence Federal Performance Efforts
Federal efforts to increase the use of data in performance management and evaluation may soon cross paths with a parallel effort at the city level. What Works Cities, a new $42 million, three-year initiative launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April, … Continue reading
Posted in Government Performance
House Panel Approves Evidence-based Policymaking Commission Bill
The House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform today approved a bill (H.R. 1831) introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) that would establish a bipartisan commission to make recommendations to Congress and the president on how best to expand the … Continue reading
Posted in Evidence