Mon.Aug 12, 2024

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New Jersey’s Legislature Stalled Reparations Inquiry For Years. Local Advocates Picked Up the Slack.

Next City

In 2025, a committee of advocates will propose how New Jersey can implement reparations for Black people. Here is what we know so far.

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How Platform Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Improve Each Other

State Tech Magazine

An interesting dynamic is unfolding between platform engineering and artificial intelligence. On one hand, platform engineering is an answer to AI’s extraordinary pace of change. The pattern of iterating quickly and the culture of agility that precedes platform engineering can improve governments’ ability to create new, AI-powered citizen services. It’s not impossible to implement new AI use cases without having a DevOps foundation, but agile development is the best way to run alongside such a f

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Deconstructing silos to discover savings: The end-to-end excellence playbook for retailers

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Some of retailers’ most pernicious operational problems can be solved with an end-to-end transformation. Here’s what they need to do.

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Department Convenes States to Elevate Support for Educators

Homeroom

By: Roberto J. Rodríguez, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development Through the Raise the Bar: Lead the World initiative, the U.S. Department of Education is working in partnership with states and school districts to eliminate educator shortages in our nation’s schools. Thanks to the leadership of state and local education Continue Reading The post Department Convenes States to Elevate Support for Educators appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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A Look Inside the Minds of Government’s Most Innovative Leaders

Successful partnerships start with knowing what public sector leaders care about. This report spotlights global innovators shaping the future of public service by tackling real-world challenges across AI, digital identity, citizen experience, and data strategy. Their work reveals the priorities, pain points, and investment areas that are driving transformation.

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German healthcare in the postpandemic era: Physician insights

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

A survey of doctors in Germany offers insights into how they feel their work has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic began, where their challenges lie, and what solutions could help overcome them.

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State legislatures ‘ramped up activity’ in first half of 2024, report finds

American City & Country

State legislatures were busy in the first half of 2024. The number of bills introduced among state legislatures in the first half of the year grew 1.4% compared with the first half of 2022 to total 76,756, according to a 2024 State Trends Report by Quorum , a public affairs software. On average, each state introduced 1,599 bills. Quorum measured the first half of 2024 against the first half of 2022 because the second year of a legislative session tends to see fewer bills compared with the first,

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Lessons from leadership luminaries

Partnership for Public Service

Curiosity is a defining—and often underestimated—element of leadership. It’s through curiosity that we learn about the world, about others and about ourselves. And it’s through learning about the world, about others and about ourselves that we lead. Though perhaps not a leadership guru, the iconic television character Ted Lasso memorably said, “Be curious, not judgmental.

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Mourning Gus Frangos (1955 – 2024)

Center for Community Progress

It is with deep sorrow that we mourn the passing of Gus Frangos , Founder and President of the Cuyahoga Land Bank. Gus leaves behind a legacy of unparalleled dedication and transformative impact on the field of land banking and community revitalization. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him. It is not an exaggeration to say that Gus shaped the national landscape of land banking.