ALBANY, N.Y. — The Empire Center recently announced it is expanding its research operations with the addition of three research fellows. Ken Girardin has been named the fellow for labor policy. He helped to produce the first independent analysis of New York’s property tax cap, which demonstrated the cap’s effectiveness and boosted efforts to extend […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — The Empire Center recently announced it is expanding its research operations with the addition of three research fellows.
Ken Girardin has been named the fellow for labor policy. He helped to produce the first independent analysis of New York’s property tax cap, which demonstrated the cap’s effectiveness and boosted efforts to extend the cap and ultimately make it permanent, the Empire Center says. He also authored “The Janus Stakes,” a quantitative analysis of the influence New York’s public-sector unions have over public policy in the Empire State. Girardin has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.
Holly Grant is the Empire Center’s adjunct fellow for education policy. Grant is affiliated with the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the New York State Association of School Business Officials. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Virginia Tech, a master of arts degree in teaching at Montclair State University, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Smith College. She also completed an advanced certificate in education finance from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Ian Kingsbury has been named an adjunct fellow for education policy. Kingsbury received his Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy. He has published more than 10 peer-reviewed studies, mostly addressing school choice.
The Empire Center, based in Albany, says it is “an independent, not-for-profit, non-partisan think tank dedicated to promoting policies that can make New York a better place to live, work and raise a family.”
