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Performance management has been hailed by its proponents as an essential tool to enhance public service performance. Yet, its actual capacity to improve public service performance continues to be questioned by many academics. This research on a small group of Australian Public Service employees examines their perceptions on the efficacy of the performance management system in their agencies. The study respondents did not believe that their work behaviours had significantly changed in response to performance management. Obstacles to high performance include perceptions of a poorly designed performance measurement system, an inadequate level and mix of rewards offered, and inconsistencies in the implementation process.

From 1995 through 2014, 15 percent of school districts nationwide closed at least one school without opening any new school. Although budgetary constraints have been claimed as a major reason to close a public school, no empirical study has examined the financial benefits of school closures. This study finds that Ohio school closures reduce an average district's total operating expenditures by $278–$285 per pupil, and that savings come primarily from cuts in classroom instructional services, including teachers. This study provides empirical evidence on the financial implications of school closings needed for stakeholders involved in a school closing process.

• The closing ban will not be lifted on Monday as expected. This is because there has not been a decrease in cases. Comm'r Ruhland does not want to lift the ban early and risk worsening the epidemic.• Since Oct. 1, there have been at least 6,799 cases of flu reported. Estimates from national health authorities are that for each reported case of flu, there are 6 unreported cases.• 209 cases were reported on Wednesday.• The article documents the numbers of cases and deaths for each day from Oct 1st to Oct 24th.• City health authorities have appealed to the governor and the military authorities to postpone a scheduled meeting of the legal advisory board that would draw many lawyers and judges to the city and also require that men between the ages 18-19, as well as 36-45, to be questioned by the board. It is estimated that up to 100,000 men in the city would need to appear before the board during its two week run.• The governor agreed to do everything in his power to postpone the meeting and the issuance of the questionnaires to the men in the city. However, legal authorities say that only Washington officials have the power to decide to delay the meeting.• There is also some disagreement over where the meeting would be held. The legal advisory board has been offered a new location for its meeting. There is no clear reason for this shift in meeting locations. (The paper states that there is some tension about this change.) ; Newspaper article ; 5

"A product of the Framework V research project, this book addresses one of the key problems facing the EU today: Why is the �́�new�́� EU so much poorer than the �́�old�́�, and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, it looks in particular at the role that foreign investment and R&D can play in closing it. Against that background, the book assesses what role proactive development policy might play in attacking the roots of low social productivity. Concluding that there will be a clear-cut process of convergence between East and West, albeit an incomplete one, it finishes with an assessment of the patterns of competitiveness, East and West, that are likely to emerge from this process of incomplete convergence. The material is based on a rich archive of empirical material which no competing title can match, and combines in-depth interviews with standard quantitative approaches and critical policy analysis."

This brief notice reports on a New Jersey case where the statute under which a defendant was convicted for inviting individuals to congregate in his saloon during the pandemic was "too indefinite to support the conviction." ; Health Report ; August 1919 Sept Oct Nov ; 2023

Unanticipated problems in closing six large institutions for the mentally retarded.

Intro -- PREFACE -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PUBLIC BENEFITS OF EDUCATION -- THE RAND EDUCATION SIMULATION MODEL -- EFFECTS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE ON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT -- COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CLOSING THE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT GAP FOR BLACKS AND HISPANICS -- EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON EDUCATION -- DISCUSSION AND NEXT STEPS -- DATA USED TO ESTIMATE PUBLIC PROGRAM BENEFITS -- ESTIMATED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND SPENDING ON SOCIAL PROGRAMS -- THE ELDERLY: A SPECIAL CASE -- SAVINGS IN PROGRAM EXPENDITURES AND INCREASES IN TAX REVENUES AND DISPOSABLE INCOME ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT -- EDUCATION FLOW RATES -- ANNUAL FLOWS FOR BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND IMMIGRATION -- EDUCATION COST ESTIMATES -- ADULT POPULATION IN 1990 AND PROJECTED TO 2015 -- ESTIMATES OF COSTS AND BENEFITS.

• The executive committee of the emergency commission met last night to decide what forms of public gathering would be prohibited, but the meeting deadlocked and adjourned at midnight with no action taken• Because an agreement over church closure seemed impossible, decisions about other closures were not attempted• Another meeting will be held this morning, and if it is decided to close churches, then "an unprecedented shutdown is expected."• Among the places that might be closed are churches, clubs, dry cabarets, athletic events, conventions, poolrooms, labor unions, saloons, political meetings, ice cream parlors, museums and exhibits, banquets, bowling alleys, and parades• Ice skating rinks was added to theaters and night schools, and they are now closed as well• The new figures show both influenza and pneumonia on a slight increase: 2,221 new influenza cases and 317 new pneumonia cases for the statistical 24-hour period• There is a shortage of nurses and nurses aids, so the teaching center of the Red Cross has issued an appeal to women trained during the last few months to volunteer their services• Mrs. Frederick Tice: "'We simply cannot cope with the situation. We have sent out 3,000 letter to our graduates in elementary hygiene and home care for the sick, and while we are more than grateful to the many who responded, we must have an enormously increased number of helpers if we are to do much good.'" ; Newspaper article ; 13

This report presents an analysis of official documents on government policies to tackle inequalities in health from 13 developed countries. All countries recognize that health inequalities are caused by adverse socioeconomic and environmental circumstances. However they differ in their definitions of inequalities and in their approaches to tackling the problem. Sweden and Northern Ireland have structured their overall public health policy to tackle the underlying determinants of inequalities in health. England is the only country with a separate comprehensive policy. Most countries also have policies on poverty, social inclusion, and social justice. These are motivated by a concern for human rights and dignity and deal primarily with the underlying causes of health inequalities. While broadly setting the same overarching goal, policies on health inequalities show many different features. Policymakers face two challenges: to ensure that strategies to tackle the macroenvironmental factorsfeature in policy on inequalities in health, and to ensure that health becomes a prominent issue in social justice policy. Few countries have a coordinated approach to tackling inequalities in health.