The Center in the News

Coverage of Publications

Coverage of Events

Center Staff Quoted in the News

Articles by Andrew White

Articles by Clara Hemphill

 

Coverage of PUBLICATIONS

Gotham Schools, November 5, 2009
Leadership, Accountability and School Improvement

WNYC, October 20, 2009
Correctional Facilities Lack Adequate Mental Health Care

Tapped blog, The American Prospect, June 24, 2009
What School Choice Looks Like

WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show, June 22, 2009
Smaller is Better?

Education Week, June 18, 2009
N.Y.C. Small-Schools Push Found to Hurt Big High Schools

The New York Times, June 17, 2009
Success at Small Schools Has a Price, a Report Says

New York Daily News, June 17, 2009
Study shows larger city high schools posting declining graduation rates

New York Post, June 17, 2009
Burden on Big Schools

Gotham Schools, June 17, 2009
Report: City's small schools push damaged large high schools

American Educator, Summer 2009
Freeing Teachers to Teach

The New York Teacher, November 20, 2008
UFT: Chronic absenteeism must be addressed

Staten Island Advance, October 27, 2008
1 in 5 kids skip school here

New York Daily News, October 27, 2008
Absent on truants

The New York Times, October 20, 2008
Report Details Chronic Absenteeism in City Schools

The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, August 2008
Letter From The President Of The New York County Lawyers' Association (pdf)

New York Daily News, July 9, 2008
Parents need some help, too

The New York Times, City Room, July 9, 2008
Fewer Children in Foster Care, but They Stay Longer

WNYC, July 9, 2008
Number of NYC Foster Children Living in Congregate Care Declining

WNYC, January 11, 2008
Busy Courts Mean Backup in Foster Care

The New York Times, City Room, January 10, 2008
Child Welfare Cases Overwhelm Family Court, Report Finds

New York Daily News, January 10, 2008
Nixmary Brown case fallout ups time kids spend in foster care time

 

Coverage of EVENTS

The Daily Politics, New York Daily News, April 22, 2009
Wayne Barrett Channels His Version Of Bloomberg

The Wonkster, Gotham Gazette, January 27, 2009
Budget Likely to Shock

The New York Times, November 28, 2008
For Seperated Families, City Never Seemed Bigger

Gotham Gazette, The Wonkster, June 13, 2008
Megaprojects and the Economic Downturn

Crain's New York Business, May 10, 2008
The right response to economic fear

Metro, May 1, 2008
Moynihan Station is a priority, panel says

New York Daily News, March 27, 2008
One crisis city can't afford

New York Daily News, March 7, 2008
Heated debate at New School discussion of city schools control

Gotham Gazette, The Wonkster, March 6, 2008
School Control: To Tweak or Not to Tweak?

The Huffington Post, March 19, 2008
On Reform and Mayoral Control of New York City's Public Schools

The New York Times, City Room, February 27, 2008
Spitzer Has Options for Turning Things Around

New York Daily News, February 27, 2008
A Pro-Spitzer (And Anti-Bruno/Dicker) Voice In The Wilderness

The New York Observer, February 27, 2008
At the New School, Special-Election Theories and Spitzer Memories

The New York Observer, February 27, 2008
Arzt on Spitzer on Silver

Reuters, November 8, 2007
NYC mayor wants to keep state fiscal monitor (pdf)

New York Daily News, November 9, 2007
City Hall urges that fiscal panel keep right to watch budget

The New York Sun, November 9, 2007
City Debates Usefulness Of Financial Control Law

The New York Times, City Room, November 8, 2007
Fiscal Policy, 30 Years After the Crisis

New York Daily News, October 24, 2007
Feds eye New York building sale at housing projects

New York Daily News, November 8, 2007
To save the projects, think big

American Renaissnce.com, June 2, 2007
Franklin: Black Atlantans May Lose Power

New York Newsday, June 2, 2007
Long Island Briefs: Suozzi part of affordable housing panel (pdf)

New York Magazine, Daily Intel, June 1, 2007
Will Tax-Happy Georgians Foil Bloomberg's Traffic Plans?

New York Daily News, December 6, 2007
Budget cuts could put in jeopardy ACS programs, head warns

The New York Sun, November 9, 2007
City Debates Usefulness Of Financial Control Law


Center staff quoted in the news

New York Post, November 1, 2009
No School Left Behind: NYC has to fix old high schools instead of just building new ones

Gotham Schools, October 20, 2009
UWS Parents and Politicos took central role in McCourts building

New York Nonprofit Press, May 2009
The Center for New NYC Affairs profile (pdf)

New York Daily News, March 10, 2009
Social services cuts to hit Queens boro seniors hard

New York Daily News, February 3, 2009
Fiscal crisis in 1975 taught New York hard lessons of chopping, freezing that are handy now

Financial Times, October 8, 2008
Bloomberg fights to stay on

The New York Times, September 23, 2008
New York City Wants Cuts by Agencies Across Board

The New York Times, June 8, 2008
As Teenagers Leave Group Homes, a Challenge Placing Those Who Remain

ABC 7, Eyewitness News, June 9, 2008
Boy's death raises red flags (video)

WNYC, January 24, 2008
Retired Cops Now Swell Ranks of Child Welfare System

New York Magazine, October 31, 2007
Wall Street Bonus Drop Presaging Real-Estate Meltdown?

Financial Times, July 5, 2007
New York skyline scales dizzy heights

Financial Times, July 4, 2007
Projects attempt to reverse 'ravages' of Robert Moses

New York Post, June 10, 2007
CITY HAUL: WORKERS PAID 150G UP 50%

New York Daily News, May 6, 2007
City targeting nabes—'underused' sites key to green goals

New York Post, March 11, 2007
Tragedy in the Bronx, Pained Father—'aloof' Mike taking heat

New York Post, March 6, 2007
GOV'T JOBS MAKE N.Y. A WORK FORCE

The New York Observer, March 4, 2007
Bloomberg Hits Up Real-Estate Bigs For WTC Memorial--$5 M. Apiece!


Articles by andrew white

The New York Times, January 14, 2007
New York's Kindest

The New York Times, January 29, 2006
A Tragedy, but Not a Trend

El Diario, January 9, 2006
La educacion preescolar: mas que una promesa (Spanish pdf)

Preschool education: more than a promise (English)

New York Daily News, Opinions, November 27, 2005
More foster care won't reduce deaths (pdf)

The Christian Science Monitor, November 7, 2005
States should invest in preschool

New York Daily News, Opinions, October 13, 2005
Little kids need good teachers too (pdf)

Newsday, December 7, 2004
Republicans can't run away from city issues (pdf)

The New York Times, Opinion, January 20, 2004
Fighting Crime and Gaining Favor

The New York Times, Opinion, June 1, 2003
A Mayor Without a Message

The New York Times, Opinion, November 9, 2002
How the City Pays for State's Sins

The New York Times, Opinion, May 6, 2002
Remaking Urban Welfare

The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 9, 2001
Latinos tipped the scale in New York City vote

The New York Times, Op-Ed, November 8, 2001
No Strings, No loyalists (pdf)

The American Prospect, October 21, 2001
New York in the 1960s

The American Prospect, June 17, 2001
The Ruin of Cities

Articles by Clara Hemphill

The Huffington Post, August 3, 2009
Honoring Frank McCourt with a New School

The Huffington Post, July 22, 2009
Let's Agree on Mayoral Control of NYC Schools

The Huffington Post, July 15, 2009
Do Charter Schools Help or Hurt?

The Huffington Post, July 1, 2009
Are the Rising Graduation Rates Real?