Welcome to news4. Good morning. News4s tom sherwood in his weekly blog recently wrote this, you see massive redevelopment. If you listen closely amidst all the development noise you will hear the cries of the poor and lower middle class who are losing their homes and hopes of ever finding other homes in the nations capital. Whats your response to that, miss barnes . You know, its the truth in many instances. Across the city, those persons who have been here long term are finding it more and more difficult to stay in the district of columbia. The cost of living is sky the sky is the limit now and particularly as it relates to home ownership. Of course you know that many of our older residents still are renters and so as rents go up, they are greatly affected. Thank goodness those that live in units that are west of connecticut avenue are probably in a rent controlled unit and that helps a lot. And of course when they leave that unit the rent escalates 30 . The story changes. Your respon
Its my pleasure to invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy. Such a terrific program. Very excited to be here today and talk about some of the work of my coauthors in l. A. At uc berkley. First, our unit of analysis is different. Were not looking at these fiscally standardized cities, but were looking at cities just how they exist. Were not capturing these differences that andy laid out between, say, baltimore and tampa, but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe you can think about fiscally standardize
To invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy. Such a terrific program. Very excited to be here today and talk about some of the work of my coauthors in l. A. At uc berkley. First, our unit of analysis is different. Were not looking at these fiscally standardized cities, but were looking at cities just how they exist. Were not capturing these differences that andy laid out between, say, baltimore and tampa, but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe you can think about fiscally standardized cities as the
Involved helping to craft the grand constitution which we put out to the community over six months ago and the response was overwhelming 500 institutions put in applications for innovative practices that they wanted to experiment with to try to improve access and outcomes and drive down cost and the fact that 500 institutions are responding so yes we have to do our part, too. So at the state level i think that our work is to help identify some of the things we are learning from the first in the world grantees and scale them up so they can become more common state practice. In the same vein, one of the areas in which the states and federal government and the k12 system have a common interest is in the teacher preparation. In a particular area of overlap working with the states now to create a set of regulations that will put more tools in the hands of the states to be be a lot of work with institutions to raise the level of the teachers which we think is a key leverage not just in the H
Moderator how do you bring that about . Catania that is one question but another is how do we make the schools that . Spent so much time talking about boundaries and what we need to talk about is how we set our schools up to succeed . The high school is a perfect example. Last year 36 of young men in this School Graduated on time and only 49 of young women. Only 43 of our kids are graduating on time. That is a state of emergency. Diversity is very important about what is also import is making sure schools are resources so they can beat the kids as we find them and have success. Moderator with all due respect to lot of people believe there is a direct correlation between lack of diversity and quality of schools. Catania people may believe that but among our Top Performing moderator what would you do to bring diversity . Bowser it is important and i actually think in talking about the outer boundary a lot less, schwartz is right in making sure we protect a fair out of boundary allotment.