Public Policy Associates (PPA) has established a new Center for Local Solutions to help cities, townships, counties, schools, and nonprofit organizations more effectively achieve public policy goals, company officials announced. PPA’s new center will be led by a team of experts with decades of experience improving state and local programs, policies, and services. They are: … Continued
LANSING – Larry Merrill, the longtime executive director of the Michigan Townships Association (MTA) and one of the state’s leading experts on local government, will become a senior consultant at Public Policy Associates (PPA). Mr. Merrill will retire from the MTA on June 30 after 19 years leading the association, which advises and represents the … Continued
At its meeting on June 11, the Michigan State Board of Education (SBE) adopted newly updated Michigan K-12 social studies standards. The updated standards were informed by extensive stakeholder input gathering led by Public Policy Associates (PPA) researchers. The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) retained PPA to design, facilitate, and report on 27 Listen and … Continued
PPA Senior Research Associate Dr. Nathan Burroughs, along with his team of fellow researchers, has released a book titled Teaching for Excellence and Equity. The book evaluates the relationship between common measures of teacher quality and student mathematics outcomes using an international dataset of 4th and 8th grade classrooms between 2003 and 2015. By using a multi-model statistical … Continued
