Of course Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top priority for governing New York City’s public schools is to empower far-left “commissars” — why worry about soaring illiteracy?
At least three of his 13 new appointees to the Panel for Education Policy are obvious ideologues.
Lucas Koehler, the City College CFO, called for segregated antiracism struggle sessions in city schools during his stint at the city Department of Education from 2014 to ’22.
Raysa Rodriguez heads the Citizens Committee for Children, which has repeatedly called for defunding the police.
Madeline Fox, a CUNY Graduate Center prof, joined Jewish faculty at CUNY, Berkeley and Georgetown in signing a letter denying antisemitism exists on US campuses and accusing Israel of genocide.
What a great bunch to address how the share of city schoolchildren failing state reading tests just jumped roughly 10 points — to more than half of 3rd- to 5th-graders.
Per a new Empire Center poll, 95% of New Yorkers say the DOE needs to improve reading and math scores, but the mayor plainly thinks the schools need more “social justice”-obsessed overseers.
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But Mamdani doesn’t even pretend to have a clue about how to boost student proficiency in reading, math or science — let alone something as basic as reversing soaring numbers of chronic absenteeism.
The only education the Democratic Socialists care about is indoctrination — so that’s going to be this mayor’s stamp on the public schools.
