Author Archives: Don Soifer
The Opportunity in Virginia’s Newest Charter School Plan When Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe took office three years ago, he made a commitment to ensuring equal opportunities for all of Virginia’s children central to his inaugural address. “Common ground doesn’t move towards us, we move towards it,” became a [Read More...]
Richmond Policy Briefing: Improving Educational Opportunities for Military-Connected Students The Lexington Institute is hosting a briefing to discuss new research on the educational opportunities of military-connected students on Wednesday, February 8 at 2:30 PM in the Virginia State Capitol. We hope you will be able to join us.
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Needed International Mail Reforms Inch Forward International Postal Update – January 2017
MODEST PROGRESS WITH NEW POSTAGE RATE SYSTEM At the 26th Universal Postal Congress (UPU) this fall, member countries voted to institute a new payment system for letters and small packages shipped by international mail. [Read More...]
Chancellor Wilson’s Brightly-Lit Road to Succeeding with the DC Public Schools The inspired choice of Antwan Wilson as new chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) brings to light several factors which should go a long way toward supporting his success in the dynamic education landscape of the Nation’s [Read More...]
How Honest is the Postal Service’s Lance Armstrong Lawsuit? The federal government’s lawsuit against former cycling champion Lance Armstrong could potentially cost the fallen icon nearly $100 million in damages. But the U.S. Postal Service, on whose behalf the government is seeking to collect, has shown it knows a [Read More...]
International Postal Update — October 2016 UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION CONGRESS TWEAKS TERMINAL DUES SYSTEMThe Universal Postal Union, the governing organization for international mail, concluded its Istanbul Congress with modest revisions to its pricing system for shipments between designated postal operators. Member countries approved pricing changes [Read More...]
What Does a Reinvented High School Model for 2016 Look Like? The excitement around this month’s “XQ: The Super School Project” announcement created a contagious buzz around ten highly innovative high school models across the country. The ten winning schools were each awarded $10 million to execute their forward-facing [Read More...]
Postal Trendwatch – September 2016 Click here to download the full report as PDF. Mail Use Study Illustrates Postal Service’s Shifting Role
Executive Summary
Declines across categories of mail continue to cause gradual shifts to the U.S. Postal Service’s role in Americans’ everyday lives, according [Read More...]
DC’s Charter Sector Drives Academic Gains Citywide Students in the Nation’s Capital continue to make relatively strong achievement gains, according to results announced this week on the PARCC assessment. But despite this progress, only about one in four students overall performed on grade level as aligned with [Read More...]
Collect on Delivery: $54 Billion in Unfunded Postal Retiree Health Benefits? The U.S. Postal Service earned $68.9 billion in total revenue last year – -that’s the good news. The less-good news, unfortunately, was that it reported $73.8 billion in operating expenses for the year.
But the really bad news is that [Read More...]