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#861: The fight to lift the charter school cap in New York City, with Crystal McQueen-Taylor

Crystal McQueen-Taylor Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. David Griffith
3.15.2023
 

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Crystal McQueen-Taylor of StudentsFirstNY joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the battle royale to lift the charter cap in New York City. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber looks at the effects of closing and restarting low-performing schools as charter schools in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Recommended content:

  • “Charter school expansion faces tough fight in New York” —New York Times
  • “Proof that charters benefit all public-school kids” —New York Post
  • “Because they can: Governor Kathy Hochul’s charter school proposal is modest—so why are teachers’ unions and state legislators so determined to stop it?” —City Journal
  • Still Rising: Charter School Enrollment and Student Achievement at the Metropolitan Level —David Griffith
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Whitney Bross, Douglas N. Harris, and Lihan Liu, “The effects of performance-based school closure and restart on student performance,” Economics of Education Review (June 2023)

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Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to our producer Nathaniel Grossman at [email protected].

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Crystal McQueen-Taylor has served as StudentsFirstNY’s Executive Director since August 2022. She started her professional career as a New York City public school teacher in the Bronx, while completing her Masters Degree coursework at Bank Street College of Education. She later joined TNTP, where she led the NYC Teaching Fellows, the largest alternative teacher certification program in the country. Before joining…

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President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, a Distinguished Senior Fellow for…

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Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…

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David Griffith is Associate Director of Research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on various subjects including charter schools, …

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