To all those who argue mayoral control of schools is bad for democracy, isn’t it a good thing that schools are the issue in this year’s New York City mayoral race? There’s an incumbent mayor up for reelection using his success running the schools as his major claim, and now we have a challenger disputing [...]
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Mayoral Control is, in Fact, about Style
Secretary Duncan’s public endorsement of mayoral control in New York City this month comes on the heels of months of controversy for the city’s chancellor Joel Klein, whose tenure seems to be endangering not only NYC’s mayoral control but the viability of Mayor Bloomberg’s entire reform agenda. The allegations driving the calls for Klein to [...]
Another Piece of Evidence for Mayoral Control
There’s a short video going around the Internets of Michael Bloomberg speaking about mayoral control of a city’s public education system. Here’s the video in full:
Most of it is general arguments for mayoral control, bolstered by Bloomberg’s claims at the beginning about rising test scores in New York City. Whatever you feel about the authenticity [...]
An Important Day for D.C. Schools?
Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty will sign legislation today adding him to the ranks of mayors who have taken control over their cities’ public education systems. The D.C. Council passed the legislation last Thursday. Congress must also approve the law before it takes effect, but is expected to do so with no problems.
I want very [...]
Selective Opinion Gathering
I can’t believe this WaPo “What do you think of the takeover?” piece with comments from parents and educators doesn’t include a single voice representing schools East of the River. And three out of four speakers are linked to schools West of Rock Creek Park.
DC Schools Takeover: Probably a Good Thing
It looks like DC mayor Adrian Fenty will be allowed to take over the city schools. As my colleague Sara Mead has written (when she’s not busy in her day job as conventional wisdom-busting provocateur), all mayoral takeovers aren’t created equal–they can be done well, or badly. But specifics aside for the moment, I think [...]
Fun with Hypotheticals
So, if you were a major urban school board, and were trying to fend of a mayoral takeover of the schools your currently control, do you think that failing to submit a budget proposal for the coming fiscal year in a timely fashion, and then insisting at the last minute that you need a much [...]
D.C. Governance Reform
The D.C. Council is holding hearings today on Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proposal to take control over governance of the District of Columbia Public Schools. If you’re a real school reform geek, you can watch the hearings here.
You can sense from the hearings that many of the council members are very frustrated with the current system [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.