Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show are

two new additions to the Manhattan Institute, Kathleen Porter McGee and Wei Hua Chin. Kathleen is the

superintendent of partnership schools, which is a network of urban Catholic schools in New York and

Cleveland. Wei Wa is the founding president of the Chinese

American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York. Both have recently joined the Institute as

Adjunct Fellows where they're going to be focusing on education policy. Kathleen and

Weiwa, thanks very much for joining me on the show today.

Thanks so much for having me.

Yeah, so each of you looks at different issues in the world of education policy,

but I think it's fair to say that what unites your work is a desire to preserve the best parts of the city's education system and to improve outcomes for its

students. I think that's key. You've both written for City Journal in the past. And Kathleen,

you wrote a report for the Manhattan Institute in 2019 on the place of Catholic schools and the

broader school reform movement.

So why don't you each talk a bit about your work in the New York education policy world

and what you'll be doing at the Institute?

And why don't I start with you, Weiwa, and then Kathleen?

Thank you so much, Brian.

It's a pleasure to be here talking about education, which is an extremely

important issue for all of us here in New York. Oh, actually not just New York, but everywhere.

This is what determines what not happens today, but what happens 10 years, 20 years from

today.

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