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Pennsylvania’s Dark Board Governing A Pennsylvania state board created by law in 2017 to review billions of dollars in tax credits and government spending quietly stopped meeting three years ago and board members won’t say why. The HoCo Dash Board … Continue reading →

The Path to a Results-Forward Budget Barrett & Greene (blog by Laura Larsen) For decades, budget season has followed a familiar script: departments submit requests based on what they received last year, finance and budget teams look for places to … Continue reading →

Evaluation Competencies in an Age of Collapse American Evaluation Association (Scott Chaplowe) Evaluation was built for stable systems, and we no longer have those. Evaluation cannot afford a double life of living as though nothing has changed while knowing everything … Continue reading →

A KPI Needs Four Distinct Owners PuMP Academy Like a puppy or kitten, if no one takes personal ownership of a performance measure, it will die a slow death. Conversely, if the puppy or kitten has too many owners, everyone … Continue reading →

From Data to Decisions Substack (Manish Srivastava) An essay on why the next generation of digital government needs an architecture for evidence, reasoning and accountability. The author discusses a fundamental question: What digital architecture do governments need to move from data … Continue reading →