{"id":30213,"date":"2025-11-06T00:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30213\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:53:09","slug":"zohran-mamdanis-plan-for-nyc-public-schools-remains-a-work-in-progress-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30213\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani’s plan for NYC public schools remains a work in progress. Here’s what we know."},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the New York City agencies Zohran Mamdani will soon be in charge of, the largest, by a wide margin, is the public school system.<\/p>\n

Yet, the mayor-elect did not signal comprehensive plans for it during the campaign. Many are wondering if the status quo will remain or if major shake-ups are coming.<\/p>\n

Education is of “immense importance,” Mamdani says<\/p>\n

The public school system is in the midst of an ongoing bus contract dispute<\/a> and has an enrollment that shrunk by 20,000 students this year, according to the Department of Education’s preliminary data.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, just hours after he won the election, Mamdani held a press conference detailing his transition.<\/p>\n

“The topics of education and public safety continue to be of immense importance,” he said.<\/p>\n

But of those two topics, more is known about his plans for public safety and the NYPD<\/a> — an agency with a budget roughly one-sixth the size of the school system’s — than education.<\/p>\n

What we know about Mamdani’s education plan<\/p>\n

The mayor-elect has proposed a system of “co-governance” rather than mayoral control of the school system, but he hasn’t provided much detail on how that might work.<\/p>\n

He supports the current literacy and math curriculums of the Adams administration, but wants to eliminate the kindergarten entry point to Gifted and Talented programs. He also has a $12 million plan to recruit teachers.<\/p>\n

“Wanting to make sure that we recruit and retain enough educators is really important,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.<\/p>\n

Weingarten called Mamdani’s election win “inspiring,” and appears ready to give him some leeway.<\/p>\n

“I’m glad he knows what he doesn’t know and is learning,” Weingarten said.<\/p>\n

“I know he’s looking at the system comprehensively” \u00a0<\/p>\n

Late last month, the Mamdani campaign quietly organized a roundtable of education leaders and advocates. City Council Education Chair Rita Joseph helped organize it and described Mamdani as “still learning.”<\/p>\n

“It was refreshing to see that, ‘Hey, I don’t know the system, but I’m willing to learn, I’m willing to see, and I don’t want to make mistakes along the way,'” Joseph said. “It’s too early to say he’s going to get rid of this and that. I know he’s looking at the system comprehensively.”<\/p>\n

CBS News New York reached out to the mayor-elect’s office and asked for further details, like whether he plans to retain Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos, but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of all the New York City agencies Zohran Mamdani will soon be in charge of, the largest, by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,9,24,3059,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-30213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-public-schools","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}