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Deputy Mayor Suggests Plan To Make NYC Government Leaner

Just four months after being appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to head the Office of Operations, Stephen Goldsmith has hit the ground running while gaining the confidence of good government groups and administration critics on the way. The recent praise has come after two recent reports analyzing cost efficiencies in mayoral agencies with a separate report exclusively on the Department of Education. Highlights included a drastically different picture than the top down, highly-organized bureaucracy normally professed by City Hall… Read More

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IBO Conducts Study On Charter Versus Public Spending

In a request by Patrick Sullivan, the Manhattan Borough president’s appointed representative to the Panel of Education Policy, the Independent Budget Office (IBO) focused their latest audit on per pupil funding allocations of taxpayer dollars to charter versus public schools.

The final results, with no surprise, were murky as to whether there is a clean cut winner or loser. Charter school supporters were more than eager to point out that despite claims made by their detractors, children in charter… Read More

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