Mathematica Policy Research shows us the way: In 2006, Congress established the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need…
A new study published by the U.S. Department of Education suggests that there is a relationship between performance pay and student test score gains. In “Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive…
Published with the current Asheville City Council meeting agenda is a copy of the legislative agenda for the League of Municipalities. (The link is here, and the NCLM materials begin…
Today the House debated Senate Bill 97, Critical Infrastructure Assessment Changes that greatly increases tax increment financing (TIFs). See more on TIFs from Daren here and Joe, here and here,…
Jennifer Roberts must’ve gotten word that local Tea Partiers were discussing the logistics of swamping the GovCenter with tax hike opponents. Check the wiggle room she constructed for Steve Harrison:…
The UNC School of Government has just released a new report on tax increment financing (TIF). As I will highlight, it supports exactly what JLF has been saying for years.…
RALEIGH – North Carolina can avoid future failures like the Randy Parton Theatre, if legislators reform the rules for so-called tax increment financing, or TIF. That’s according to a new…
Before the Charlotte City Council pleads poverty again, realize it will vote tonight to spend $30 million on a Northeast light rail line the feds may never fund and $9.5.…
The Local Government Commission gulped down the snake oil offered by the North Carolina Research Campus, voting unanimously to approve $168 million in tax increment financing debt for the speculative…
Chad, Since Meeker saw the light on Kane’s North Hills TIF project why didn’t he see the light on the Fayetteville Street project, convention center and hotel subsidy? It seems…
As we told you would happen a couple months back, state law has been changed to allow localities to use tax increment financing to build schools, community college facilities, and…
Maybe this quote in the Charlotte Business Journal left something out, but as rendered the pro-CATS, pro-tax side of the transit debate is already off on the wrong foot. Pat…