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
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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
Eliot Spitzer had been governor for less than a month when he addressed a crowd of dignitaries at the state Education Department. The department's historic building was an appropriate setting for a historic proposal: pumping more money into public education than ever before, in return for more accountability than ever. Read More
Contracts for Excellence (C4E), the centerpiece of former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s reform agenda for New York state schools in 2007, “could now more accurately stand for Commitments for Expenditures” because of the program’s emphasis on educational inputs over educational outcomes, says a Policy Briefing issued today by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More
Spitzer’s expansion of education funding and restructuring of the school aid formula may be his most important legacy. Unfortunately, C4E has been seriously hobbled by flaws in its assumptions about the mechanisms of reform, by misguided beliefs about “what works” in achieving excellence, and by a compressed timeline for adoption and implementation. Read More