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Mamdani does right in fighting City Council teacher-aide giveaway

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is doing the right thing in fighting the City Council’s push to award teaching bonuses outside the collective-bargaining process. 

The mayor is suing to stop the $10,000 grants to special-education paraprofessionals because they’d set a disastrous precedent.

City Council Speaker Julie Menin argues the move would save the city money on support it’s legally required to give many special-needs kids, but it’s an obvious long-term loser — an open invitation for every public-employee union to get lawmakers to award them gifts so to win union backing at the next election.

We fear that last is why the council voted........

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