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|  | | | | Learn more about our current projects | | Current projects may be in the early planning, research and development or active public communication phase. We generally focus one major project at a time.
Click on the project titles below for more in-depth descriptions.
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Smart Investments in Minnesota's Students
We know a well-educated populace strengthens the economy. And education puts individual Minnesotans in a better position to earn a decent living. That's why we're proposing the state adopt the strategic goal of increasing by half the number of Minnesotans who have a post-secondary degree.
But how do we know if investing more money in the system will achieve that result?
Rethinking Public Education will develop a strategic plan for improving educational outcomes for Minnesotans, from early childhood through college. Informed by research and a wide spectrum of stakeholders, the project will seek out the most effective evidence-based practices, measures and methods of accountability. By spring 2008, we expect to forge a broad consensus on what constitutes success and how to achieve it in the public education system.
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Smart Investments in Transportation for Minnesota
Minnesota faces major transportation challenges. Already playing catch-up after many years of insufficient investment, the state has yet to adequately address emerging transportation concerns posed by rising costs, forecasted population growth and the environmental impacts of the current transportation system. Through Smart Investments in Transportation for Minnesota, Growth & Justice will work with key constituencies, stakeholders, experts and policy makers to identify and recommend transportation changes to increase sustainable economic growth for the state and expand economic prosperity for Minnesota’s people and places. Growth & Justice will engage a project steering committee, compile and review evidence regarding smart policy options, formulate policy ideas, and educate crucial audiences about project findings and recommendations. Smart Investments in Transportation for Minnesota aims to change thinking and approaches to public-sector transportation investment. |
Governing With Accountability
There's broad support for more public investment in Minnesota — provided citizens are convinced government will spend the money wisely and be held accountable for results. This exploratory project, an outgrowth of Invest for Real Prosperity, will seek to answer such questions as:
- How do we ensure that our public dollars in Minnesota are wisely spent to achieve specific outcomes?
- How are state and local governments doing today at holding themselves accountable for measurable results?
- What structural or process changes could we make in our governments in order to do better?
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| What's Accountable Government? | | Invest for Real Prosperity identified some principles for instilling greater fiscal discipline and accountability in government. Governing with Accountability will further develop these concepts.
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