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Pay For Success Financing: Diffusion Dynamics In The U.S., Vanessa R. Fry
Pay For Success Financing: Diffusion Dynamics In The U.S., Vanessa R. Fry
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Across the United States (U.S.), communities struggle with numerous social and environmental issues while the funding to provide programmatic services to address these issues continues to diminish. As such, actors both inside and outside of government are seeking new policy solutions that both effectively and efficiently address these issues. Significant hurdles to embarking on a new policy approach exist, however, including a lack of up-front funding and a reluctance to take on the risk inherent in implementing new programs. A recent innovation in the policy domain, Pay for Success (PFS) financing, has been specifically designed to overcome these hurdles. Policy …
Public Administrator Choice Idaho School District Finance Policy Observed, Cameron Marcus Arial
Public Administrator Choice Idaho School District Finance Policy Observed, Cameron Marcus Arial
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Physical facilities are essential for Idaho public school districts to fulfill their constitutional mandate “to establish and maintain a general, uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools.1 Because these physical facilities cost millions of dollars to construct, a common and prudent means of financing them is to borrow through the municipal bond market. Accessing the bond market to obtain these needed funds is an infrequent and complex process for most Idaho school districts and the administrators who are charged with carrying out these financings. For this purpose, school administrators look to the guidance of financial professionals to …