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Add The New York Post on Google 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.
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.
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.
