Our city’s school system is in deep trouble: Enrollment is down, and chronic absenteeism is at record highs.
One-party rule in Albany and City Hall has caused much of this, with legislators throwing money at the system with no guardrails in place to hold schools accountable for student performance.
It’s hard to see any meaningful change coming from this year’s mayoral election.
Mamdani has no grasp of what has and hasn’t worked over the last 50 years. Getty Images
Zohran Mamdani has the simplest education platform of the remaining candidates.
The Democrat intends to push “an end to mayoral control,” envisioning “a system instead in which parents, students, educators and administrators work together to create the school environments in which students and families will best thrive.”
This lacks understanding of the complexity of the nation’s largest school system and any grasp of what has and hasn’t worked