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Preparing New Teachers for Day One
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The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Candidate Assessment of Performance (CAP) is designed to assess the overall readiness of teacher candidates. The state wants to identify best practices, tailor guidelines and…
Evaluating Data on School Turnaround AmeriCorps Efforts
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School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a grant program to increase high school graduation, college readiness, and educational attainment for students in our nation’s persistently lowest-achieving schools, designated as School‐Improvement Grant (SIG) or Priority…
Empowering States to Drive Energy Policies
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The EPA State and Local Climate and Energy Program offers free tools and technical resources to help states pursue their energy goals while promoting job creation and economic growth.
Supporting Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Efforts
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Economic Mobility & Opportunity (EMO) team aims to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty and to catalyze systemic changes to promote upward mobility.
CommentCounts™ Manages Complex Public Comment Processes
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Federal laws often do not specify every detail of how agencies should implement them. Agencies must use the rulemaking process to do so and seek public comments on the rules. They also seek public comments for other policy and rule changes. Some attract…
Opioid Recovery Through Workforce Development
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Substance use disorders (SUDs), including opioid use disorder (OUD), represent a significant barrier to employment. Growing rates of SUDs also require a skilled workforce to help communities respond to the needs of individuals in recovery. The Department…
Farm to School: A Comprehensive Review from 2010-2020
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Following the 2010 reauthorization of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created a Farm to School Program to distribute grant funding, provide training and technical assistance for improving access…
Supporting the Planning and Evaluation of Louisiana’s Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion
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Louisiana needs to rebuild its eroding coastline, which is degrading in part because levees prevent sediment from the Mississippi River from replenishing coastal areas. The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) was proposed to reconnect the river to…
Collecting Infectious Disease Data in Nursing Homes
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Infectious diseases can spread quickly through nursing homes, leading to high morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored this, causing over 1.7 million SARS-CoV-2 cases and almost 168,000 deaths among nursing…
Helping Get the Kinks out of Home Health Prospective Payments
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Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…