Posts Tagged ‘RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity’

[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”272″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1452216973071{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]To provide a more-significant, less-volatile measure of Rhode Island’s economic and employment well-being, Justin developed the Jobs & Opportunity Index (JOI) for the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity, with 13 separate data measures, mainly involving the economic health of Rhode Island’s…

[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”147″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1452216973071{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]For four years, the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity has reviewed all legislation receiving a vote on either chamber floor in the state General Assembly, using the bill scores to rank legislators in both the House and Senate.  Every year, Justin reads…

[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”102″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1451960840593{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1451960545644{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]The 2015 Competitiveness Report Card was the fourth that the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity has released.  For this edition, in addition to researching new data sources and compiling all of the updated data,…

[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”194″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1452995096977{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]For its 2015 promotion of education savings accounts (ESAs) to provide school choice to Rhode Island families, the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity developed the Rhode Island District Impact Model for Educational Scholarships (RI-DIMES) fiscal modeling tool to predict the effect on…

[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”240″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1454979560939{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Preparing for public debate around legislation that would bring real school choice to Rhode Island, the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity began to look into the lay of the education land in the state.  For this short report, Justin explored the…

[vc_row hide_row=”ct_tt_hide_content_timeline”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”246″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1455581766129{background-color: #ffffff !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity revved up to promote the concept of school choice (education savings accounts, specifically) during the state’s legislative session, one area in which the public clearly needed more information was the performance of its students…