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Here’s an easy way for cash-squeezed Mamdani to save on DOE’s monster budget

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned on cleaning up the Department of Education’s bloated contracting — promising to audit its biggest vendors and root out deals built on who you know instead of what you do.

So, it’s odd that four months after the City Council asked to see DOE’s contracts, it still hasn’t gotten them all.

This month, Speaker Julie Menin threatened subpoenas over the hundreds of missing contracts.

Mamdani says the council will have them “in the coming weeks.”

For a mayor who ran on following the money, it’s a strange thing to slow-walk.

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Much of the school system runs on outside vendors. The DOE spends nearly $13 billion a year contracting out busing, cleaning, food, technology and special-education services.

It buys the same services year after year. When a contract expires, the city can rebid it or renew with the same vendor. It usually renews.

The problem is the billions of taxpayer dollars flowing through decades-old contracts that get renewed, extended and expanded without ever being tested against a competitor.

Last year, only about 13% of the DOE’s newly registered contract dollars were........

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