Philip Howard talks with Larry Rifkin about Not Accountable.
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Rich Valdés interviews Philip Howard about his proposal for an independent fiscal commission to address the debt ceiling crisis, Common Good, and Not Accountable. (Interview starts at 44:12.)
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Philip Howard fields calls about Not Accountable and his other work with Peter Slen.
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Philip Howard joins the group to discuss Not Accountable.
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Accountability is basically nonexistent in American government today. Performance doesn’t matter; many public managers tell me they’ve never seen a public employee dismissed for poor performance. The Minneapolis Police Department had received 2,600 complaints in the decade before the killing of George Floyd in 2020. Twelve led to discipline, of which the most severe was a 40-hour suspension.
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Philip Howard talks about Not Accountable with Michael Taylor.
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Two public schools in Manhattan illustrate the high stakes of a political choice that the nation, and many states and municipalities, must reconsider. In 2019, Success Academy Harlem 2 charter school ranked 37th among New York state’s 2,413 public elementary schools, one of which, PS 30, had only about a third as many pupils as Harlem 2, spent twice as much per pupil and ranked 1,694th. PS 30 and Harlem 2 operate in the same building.
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David Webb interviews Philip Howard about Not Accountable.
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