2012-05-24T14:57:58Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/texas.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1134z1.html Jan 19, 2012 Jan 19, 2012

The Dallas Police Department received a $5 million grant in 2006 to install laptops and video recorders in patrol cars and thus modernize its operations. RAND evaluated the initiative and found it to be generally successful, despite some implementation problems.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1134z2.html Jan 18, 2012 Jan 18, 2012

In 2006, the Communities Foundation of Texas allocated $10 million to the Dallas Police Department to establish the W. W. Caruth Jr. Police Institute. An evaluation of the institute's first course considered participants' opinions of the course's impact on their approach to their jobs, their relationships with supervisors and subordinates, and their sense of solidarity with their coworkers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR991-1.html Jan 4, 2012 Jan 4, 2012

Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1104.html Aug 18, 2011 Aug 18, 2011

Asbestos bankruptcy trusts—created to compensate people injured by the mineral—may be influencing tort cases. The current way that the trusts and the tort cases are linked together may result in payments that are not consistent with the basic principles of the tort liability system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9603.html Aug 18, 2011 Aug 18, 2011

People with asbestos injuries are increasingly receiving compensation from trusts set up by bankrupt asbestos defendants. This brief documents how courts handling these cases consider trust payments when determining compensation.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/08/18.html Aug 18, 2011 Aug 18, 2011

Asbestos bankruptcy trusts—created to compensate people injured by the mineral—may be influencing tort cases. The current way that the trusts and the tort cases are linked together may result in payments that are not consistent with the basic principles of the tort liability system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100181.html Jul 31, 2011 Jul 31, 2011

<p>The mean value of travel time savings obtained from a random parameters logit model estimated using the respondents who received the D-efficient design survey was closer to what is typically found in the literature.</p>

http://www.rand.orghttp://tx.rand.org/.html May 18, 2011 May 18, 2011

RAND Texas is a subscription-based service that provides access to more than 110 databases of statistics on industry and occupational wages, prison and parolee populations, teacher demographics, greenhouse gas emissions, and more. Much of the data is available at the national, state, county, and city levels.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR851.html May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011

<p>In March 2009, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) began a unique partnership with two local universities, the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas: The Caruth Police Institute (CPI) provides officer training and serves as the DPD's research and problem-solving arm. This report examines the extent to which CPI is meeting its goals, obstacles to implementation, and how CPI has responded to these challenges.</p>

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/04/05.html Apr 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011

A series of new reports by the RAND Corporation outlines the impact that national health care reform will have on individual states, estimating the increased costs and coverage that are expected in five diverse states once reform is fully implemented in 2016.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/04/05/index5.html Apr 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011

National health care reform will help 5 million Texas residents obtain health insurance and increase health care spending by state government by about 10 percent when it is fully implemented in 2016.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9589.html Apr 1, 2011 Apr 1, 2011

Projects how the coverage-related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in five states.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR973z4.html Apr 1, 2011 Apr 1, 2011

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains substantial new requirements aimed at increasing rates of health insurance coverage. This report provides estimates, based on the RAND COMPARE microsimulation model, of how the law will affect health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in Texas through 2020.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1031.html Oct 28, 2010 Oct 28, 2010

Law enforcement agencies in areas where terrorist threats are considered to be high have expanded their focus beyond traditional crime prevention and investigation to include counterterrorism and homeland security operations.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/10/28.html Oct 27, 2010 Oct 27, 2010

Law enforcement agencies in areas where terrorist threats are considered to be high have expanded their focus beyond traditional crime prevention and investigation to include counterterrorism and homeland security operations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP202/index2.html

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP174/index2.html

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000114.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

<p>This report presents findings from the first year of District Awards for Teacher Excellence (D.A.T.E.) (2008-09 school year), with emphasis on program participation decisions made by districts, the local design preferences for performance pay plans, and the early implementation experiences of D.A.T.E. participants.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000116.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

<p>The authors propose several guidelines for using existing graduation and persistence rate data and argue that a national effort to track students as they progress through high school is essential to reconcile conflicting estimates.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR730.html Oct 15, 2009 Oct 15, 2009

<p>Based on the results of four surveys carried out in 2008-2009, this report describes the state of policing in Dallas, Texas. These surveys collected data on the opinions of randomly selected Dallas residents, people who had a recent contact with an officer of the Dallas Police Department (DPD), DPD officers, and retail business owners in Dallas. This first wave of survey data will act as a benchmark against which to assess DPD in the future.</p>