PRESS RELEASE: PSC research links focus on education to stronger workforce
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 LANSING, Mich. — In a new report, Public Sector Consultants (PSC) takes a close look at Michigan’s troubled education system and proposes solutions for improving student outcomes and strengthening the state’s workforce. The report, titled Building a Brighter Future: Recommendations…
Region 9 Prosperity Initiative Five-year Prosperity Strategy
The Regional Prosperity Initiative (RPI) was established by Gov. Rick Snyder and the state legislature in 2014 to encourage local partners to create vibrant regional economies. The RPI is a voluntary program, developed to recognize the fact that many Michigan regions and their myriad of planning and service delivery entities have overlapping responsibilities and lack…
PRESS RELEASE: Poll: Moral duty to Detroit Schools, Financial Duty Less Clear
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 Moral duty to Detroit schools, financial duty less clear In the latest Public Sector Consultants/Denno Research poll, conducted May 14 to 16, 2015, we asked 600 likely voters statewide a series of questions about Detroit Public Schools. From the governor’s…
PRESS RELEASE: Voters Point to Complexity, Leadership Issues for Prop 1 Failure
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 Voters point to complexity, leadership issues for Prop 1 failure Recently, Michigan voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposal 1, a measure designed to fund road repairs. We not only wondered why it failed, but more importantly, what do voters expect next time…
Tracking the class of 2015: Where will millennials move post-graduation?
As spring comes to a close, students across the nation will pour out of the hallowed halls of colleges and universities to launch their careers and their futures. As tassels are moved from right to left and caps of all colors are tossed into the air, many decisions have already been made about jobs, apartments…
In the Gears: Putting PSC’s implementation skills to work for the Great Lakes
Fostering an idea into a fully implemented project is the focus in this installment of In the Gears, a series that highlights the tools PSC uses to turn the gears of public policy innovation. Other focus areas include research, evaluation and defining problems and solutions through facilitation, strategic counsel and strategic planning. One of the cornerstones…
Why vaccinating matters
Each year, thousands of children become ill from diseases that could have been prevented by basic immunizations. When a child catches measles or whooping cough, there is an obvious threat to the child’s health. But how does illness affect that child’s education, or our education system and society at large? Vaccines and our schools…
Q&A: Council of Michigan Foundations President and CEO Rob Collier
Growing Michigan’s philanthropic impact is a primary goal for the Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF). The organization depends on its members, investments in Michigan’s charitable organizations, collaboration and more to move that goal forward. In order to understand the nonprofit sector’s influence in Michigan, CMF supported research done by Public Sector Consultants (PSC) on nonprofits’…
Powering the Mitten: Report warns of looming electricity capacity shortfall
Source: Midwest Independent System Operator via Public Sector Consultants. Electricity shortages, rolling blackouts, and surging electricity prices were the order of the day in California back in 2000 and 2001. California’s power crisis, which has been attributed to a “perfect storm” of increased demand, reduced supply, and market manipulation by energy traders such as Enron,…
Meet the Michigan economy: Cars, chairs and cherries, oh my!
North Star Organics cherry orchard in Frankfort, MI. Recession hit Michigan earlier and deeper than most states during the last decade, digging an economic hole that residents and businesses have been trying to climb out of for years. But while the Great Lake State’s productivity and employment numbers haven’t quite returned to pre-recession levels, the…