(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Sound familiar? Go Uber go!
This is my apprentice, Darth de Blasio. He will deal with your transportation freedom problem
July 24, 2015
Leave a Comment » | 
Uncategorized | Tagged: Bill de Blasio, Uber, Uber in NYC | 
Permalink
Posted by matthewladner
Centralized and Decentralized Reform Longevity in NYC
May 14, 2014
This is my apprentice Darth de Blasio. He will deal with your beneficial retention policy….
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Jay’s important post on choice programs developing a stronger constituency than many other types of education reform has an obvious recent example in Mayor de Blasio’s New York City. New York City has a earned promotion policy for improving literacy instruction. The program demonstrated strongly positive results, including not one but two positive evaluations from the RAND Corporation using advanced statistical analysis. Sadly when this worthy retention policy ran up against Darth de Blasio the result was:
The unfortunate reality is that the earned promotion policy, while demonstrably effective, has a limited constituency to defend it. A large population could benefit from the continuation of the policy but lacks organization. One of the most basic laws of politics is that organized interests defeat disorganized interests 99 times out of a hundred trials, or thereabouts.
What happened when de Blasio went after charter schools? Oh yeah…
So how did the assault on charter schools turn out for the Darth Randi’s apprentice?
Does this mean we should avoid all top down policies like the plague and focus only on promoting choice? Not in my book, but it is worth noting that policies enjoying little support outside a small group of supporters can be easily reversed. Developing a base of support is essential to policy longevity. I don’t think that choice is the only K-12 policy reform that has the potential to develop broad support, but it is an equation that few other policies have solved.
7 Comments | charter schools | Tagged: Bill de Blasio, Darth Maul, Jay Greene, Randi Weingarten | Permalink
Posted by matthewladner
New Yorkers Prefer Team Cuomo to Team de Blasio
March 20, 2014
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Voters give de Blasio low marks on his handling of public education. The Mayor’s decision to spend his honeymoon period crushing high performing charter schools for low-income children for no apparent reason is looking worse all the time.
Leave a Comment » | charter schools | Tagged: Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, NYC charter co-locations, NYC charter schools | Permalink
Posted by matthewladner
Charter school co-locations are terrible because, ummmm, well….errrr
March 18, 2014
“This is my apprentice, Darth de Blasio. He will help you harass poor children in charter schools.” “Yes Lord Weingarten!”
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Marcus Winters on the Phantom Menace of charter school co-locations in NYC. Punchline: if charter school locations are as awful as Mayor de Blasio claims, it is odd that you can find no trace of it in student test scores.
Leave a Comment » | charter schools | Tagged: Bill de Blasio, Marcus Winters, New York City charter schools. charter school co-locations | Permalink
Posted by matthewladner
Reason Foundation on de Blasio’s War on Charter Kids
March 11, 2014
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute also provides an interesting analysis in Cuomo Schools de Blasio. The NYC chancellor has begun to make noises about finding alternative space for Success Academy, so let’s see what happens next.
UPDATE: NYT on de Blasio’s plan to charge rent to charter schools, WaPo editorial board weighs in, de Blasio goes on Morning Joe.
Leave a Comment » | charter schools | Tagged: Andrew Cuoma, Bill de Blasio, Progressive Policy Institute, Reason Foundation, Will Marshall | Permalink
Posted by matthewladner
Jay P. Greene's Blog 