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NYC’s insane $38B school budget just buys failure — here’s where Mamdani must cut

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani seeks to fill his $5.4 billion to $7.1 billion budget hole, he has so far shown little willingness to cut Department of Education spending.

But he’ll never balance the books if he keeps throwing good money after bad in the city’s public schools.

Mamdani’s budget sets aside $38 billion for DOE’s operations — $3 billion, or 8%, more than the current fiscal year.

Education already accounts for about a third of the city’s budget, and the Citizens Budget Commission estimates that per-pupil spending now exceeds $42,000, the most expensive among large urban districts.

Yet while enrollment has fallen 12% since 2020 — even with the addition of some 50,000 migrant students — and city births have dropped 20% since 2000, the DOE’s budget keeps on growing.

Families across the income spectrum, from working-class households to the wealthy, want out of a poorly performing system.

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Mamdani, Hochul pat themselves on back for filling in potholes, drawing scorn: ‘Like taking credit for changing a lightbulb’

Only 28% of NYC’s fourth graders are proficient in reading and 33% in math, according to the latest national assessment scores.

New Yorkers simply don’t get good education value for their tax dollars, mostly because........

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