The horrible reasons the teachers union just endorsed Zohran Mamdani

It’s easy to see why the United Federation of Teachers just threw its support to Zohran Mamdani: He’s already said he wants to end mayoral control of the public schools — which translates to putting the city’s teachers’ union in charge.

Per his platform, Mamdani “supports an end to mayoral control” as we know it in favor of something it calls “co-governance”; he’s elsewhere vowed “to give more say to educators and parents.”

Let’s be clear here: Before mayoral control, no one could hold anyone in particular to account for the public schools, as ever-changing political alliances determined who controlled the city Board of Education.

That left the UFT as easily the system’s most powerful player — with no effective voice for the kids.

Remember: Unions exist solely to serve their members’ interests, however much they pretend otherwise; that’s why COVID fears kept US schools closed the longest in areas

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