“NYC public schools offer a key opportunity for comprehensive climate action,” says New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

In fact, the Mamdani administration is so concerned about the “present and future impacts of the climate crisis” that it wants to spend $3.3 billion “revitalizing our public schools with healthy, green infrastructure.”

Officially called “Green Schools for a Healthier New York City,” Mamdani’s pet project seeks to “renovate 500 public schools with renewable energy infrastructure,” “build 500 green schoolyards,” “transform 50 schools into resilience hubs,” and “combat environmental racism in NYC.”

Make no mistake, this is nothing more than virtue signaling and another attempt to shovel a few billion bucks into the climate change industrial complex’s coffers. It certainly is not about improving NYC public schools.

Across nearly all metrics, NYC public schools are failing.

According to the New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) website, NYCPS is “the largest school district in the United States” with more than 900,000 students and 1,597 public schools.

Unsurprisingly, NYCPS has an enormous budget. This year, NYCPS will spend $42.8 billion in total. Out of that substantial sum, less than 40 percent is allocated for “K-12........

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