Specialized High School Admissions; Ramadan Call-In; Buying Influence Is a Bipartisan Issue; What London Can Teach NYC About Congestion Pricing
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 23, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Ahead of Thursday's public hearing, John Liu, New York Senator (D 11, Queens), chair of the NYC Education Committee, talks about Albany's role in addressing diversity in NYC schools, including proposals to change the admissions process at the specialized high schools.
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, junior United States Senator from Rhode Island and author of (now out in paperback) Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy (The New Press, 2017), talks about how corporations, through dark money, buy political influence on every level of the government, from senators to regulators.
- New York will make history in 2021 when it becomes the first city in the country to implement congestion pricing. Bobby Cuza, political reporter for NY1, and Tony Travers, visiting professor in London School of Economics Department of Government and director of LSE London, a research center at The London School of Economics and Political Science, talk about what New Yorkers can learn from London, a city where congestion pricing has been around since 2003.
