{"id":342995,"date":"2026-09-10T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342995\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:12:10","slug":"mamdani-administration-initiates-reforms-to-city-school-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342995\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani administration initiates reforms to city school system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITYWIDE \u2014 THE NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS system is undergoing a sweeping overhaul on its procurement policy and budget, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2026\/09\/mayor-mamdani-brings-nyc-public-schools-procurement-into-the-21s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a>on Thursday. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2026\/08\/mayor-mamdani-and-chancellor-kamar-samuels-launch-sweeping-overh?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">overhaul<\/a>aims to bring long-overdue reforms to the nation\u2019s largest school district.<\/p>\n<p>The reforms are expected to save the city more than $100 million over the current fiscal year and the next by eliminating unnecessary contracts, rebidding where appropriate and strengthening active contract management. The reforms address longstanding delays, red tape and bureaucracy in the NYCPS procurement and contracting system. They will modernize outdated technology, provide comprehensive procurement training for staff and establish clear, transparent timelines for vendors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chancellor Lindsey Oates will lead a newly-created Division of Finance, Administration and Human Resources to consolidate the work to streamline oversight, strengthen accountability and improve operations.<\/p>\n<p>One reform underway is the Mamdani administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/412290\/mamdani-cancels-t-mobile-doe-contract\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cancellation<\/a> \u2014 announced last month \u2014 of a T-Mobile internet service that was part of the previous Adams\u2019 administration\u2019s no-bid deal that included the purchase of Chromebooks, which have remained in storage. The DOE said at the time that this deal duplicated existing resources at an unnecessary cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789060330_683_read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITYWIDE \u2014 THE NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS system is undergoing a sweeping overhaul on its procurement policy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,67,9,24,63,82],"class_list":["post-342995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342995","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=342995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}