America’s schools were already mired in red tape before COVID-19. Now a system unable to adapt to predictable daily challenges must innovate with distance learning and distancing protocols.
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The bipartisan Campaign for Common Good will hold a Zoom forum at noon (EDT) on Tuesday, July 28, to explore overhaul of school bureaucracy.
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Last week, the Trump administration announced new regulations to streamline infrastructure permitting. Citing Common Good’s report, "Two Years, Not Ten Years," the new regulations put presumptive limits on size (300 pages) and time (two years) of environmental reviews.
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On July 15, 2020, Common Good hosted the second forum in the Campaign for Common Good to explore the need to remake public service in America.
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Philip K. Howard, Chair of Common Good, today released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s final changes—announced on July 16—to regulations streamlining permitting under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The new regulations and explanatory material cite several times the Common Good 2015 report “Two Years, Not Ten Years.”
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Accountability is key to fixing broken government. Accountability is vital to public trust, and also to a healthy internal public culture. Nothing is more corrosive to a department than the knowledge that personal performance doesn't matter. Why go the extra mile if others don't? Like a leak in a tire, energy and pride quickly go flat.
Read MoreThe bipartisan Campaign for Common Sense will hold a Zoom forum on Wednesday, July 15, to explore the need to remake public service in America.
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The first forum of the Campaign for Common Good addressed the following challenges: avoiding red tape delays in reopening; creating a reliable liability framework that avoids chilling reopening while incentivizing safe protocols; and learning from other developed countries.
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The bipartisan Campaign for Common Good, which launched last Thursday, will hold its first virtual forum on Tuesday, June 30, at noon (EDT). The one-hour Zoom forum will focus on “The Legal Framework for COVID-19 Recovery” and will cover the following challenges: avoiding red tape delays in reopening; creating a reliable liability framework that avoids chilling reopening while incentivizing safe protocols; and learning from other developed countries.
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Creating a legal framework for COVID-19 recovery will be the first plank in our Campaign for Common Good. We will host a virtual forum on Tuesday, June 30, at 12pm Eastern time.
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"The virus teaches us something. It's a wakeup call," says Philip K. Howard, the founder of the nonprofit Common Good…
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The Washington Examiner’s Grant Addison discusses the Campaign for Common Good with Philip K. Howard.
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Who has a coherent vision for better government? Good leadership is vital but not sufficient. The current framework frustrates everyone.
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100 Prominent Leaders from Both Parties – Including Former Senators, Governors, Mayors, and Business and Thought Leaders – Call for Spring Cleaning Commissions. Government’s Failures with COVID-19 and Police Accountability Show the Need for Overhaul.
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Pressure for change is building. Broad alienation and pent-up frustration are reflected in the crazy political rhetoric. But where’s the coherent vision of what the change should be?
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Something has gone terribly wrong. An overgrown jungle of complex laws has created stagnation in our country, and removed people's ability to exercise judgement and common sense. Something needs to be done to simplify the law, remove unnecessary rules, and put humans in charge again.
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The Washington cocktail of paralytic bureaucracy and polarized politics has stalled the rebuilding of America's decrepit infrastructure for over a decade. Now would be a good time to get off the dime. A million or more jobs — mostly outdoors — would be a great path for helping the economy recover from the COVID shutdown.
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Rebuilding America’s decrepit infrastructure would be a fabulous way to come out of the COVID shutdown — a million or more jobs, most of which are outdoors. How do we do that?
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The protests and riots show what happens when large segments of the population believe the deck is stacked against them. Distrust of government leads to corrosion of civil society. The opportunistic looting across the country is indefensible, but it’s rationalized by the logic of nihilism: If police won’t follow norms of civilized behavior, then neither will we.
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On this episode of the First Things Podcast, Philip K. Howard discusses his book Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left with host Mark Bauerlein.
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