The average public school teacher nationwide earned just over $34 per hour in 2005 -- 36 percent more than the average non-sales white-collar worker, according to a new report by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. , by Manhatta Read More
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s historic education-reform plan aims to hold New York’s schools more accountable than ever before. But is the state’s educational-accountability system equipped to meet this challenge? Read More
Gov. Eliot Spitzer's historic education-reform plan aims to hold New York's schools more accountable than ever before. But is the state's educational-accountability system equipped to meet this challenge? That question was the focus of a major public-policy forum March 8 at the State Capitol in Albany. The event was co-sponsored by the Empire Center for Public Policy and the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability. Read More
Manuel Rivera, the former Rochester schools superintendent who has become Governor Spitzer's secretary for education, is the subject of a new profile on the Manhattan Institute's City Journal website. The author is Peter Meyer, a Hudson- Read More
MR. MCMAHON: All right thank you very much, I'll begin to introduce our panel now. To wrap up our session today, we have a distinguished panel of leaders and experts in different areas of education here to talk about the theme of our Read More
MR. MCMAHON: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming. My name is E.J. McMahon, I'm a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute and Director of the Institute's Empire Center for Public Policy. And on behalf of the E Read More
New York was number-one in the nation in elementary and secondary public school spending in 2004-05, according to newly released Census Bureau data. Public elementary and secondary schools in the Empire State spent $14,119 per pupil -- 62 percent Read More
A large majority of New Yorkers support the idea of capping property tax increases, according .Governor Spitzer announced in his Jan. 9 State of the State message that he would form a commission to recommend a cap on school property t Read More