McKinsey Drops NYC from World’s Best School Systems
by Norm Fruchter
A comparison of two reports released by McKinsey & Company, an influential global management consulting firm, suggest that the New York City educational reforms under Mayor Bloomberg have not produced the impressive outcomes that have been claimed.
McKinsey & Company began an intensive involvement in education issues more than a decade ago. Their consultants played critical roles in planning the restructuring of the New York City school system under Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein, and several McKinsey “graduates” were key members of the Chancellor’s brains trust in the early years of Children First. In 2007, McKinsey & Company published a report on the
