"Bloated" lmao. I don't think there's a single school district in the US that has sufficient funding
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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But you see, as he notes himself in the article, the students are under performing. So we should be removing money from the schools to punish them. That will help the grades come up, you see
Unironically the logic used by the same caste of people who keep backing dump trucks of money into the "AI" bonfire when it will never be profitable at its current scale
If you need money to compensate for the tax breaks for billionaires and their companies and money to fund weapons and wars for Israel, you gotta save somewhere, duh!
I like how they say bloated. Carry that implication that public school bad.
new York post be like
Mamdani seen petting a dog and calling him good boy. this is the worst thing that has ever happened in NY history.
"already bloated budget"
This bitch is crying that they spend too much on education in the same article that he talks about how edution stats from last year show that students are falling behind. And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase. Pretty fucking marginal. He's specifically whining that those dollars don't go to police instead.
The majority of that money is going to keep schools funded and open whose enrollment is dipping, because otherwise you have school closures, redistricting, and lost teaching, administrative, service, and maintenance jobs, etc. And that only after months or years of limited resources and worse overall education and opportunities for the students.
Josh Johnson said it’s like Mamdani found the “make government work” button that nobody else wanted to press.
But when government does stuff, that's socialism. And the news tells me that is scary.
Some neolib putz on Mastodon was arguing with me about Mamdani not including enough money to the budget for education. I guess he has to shut the fuck up now.
Mamdani could walk out onto the street corner and just stand there, and Republicans would just shit their pants and scream all day. it's their job. just the fact that he exists is absolute torment to them.
I love it
he's their new Obama. remember the tan suit and the dijon mustard bullshit? it's what they attack because they have nothing else.
They complained that he violated pool dress code by jumping into a pool with his suit on, to start the season off. What the fuck kind of complaint is that, honestly. Unless hoards of children start jumping in with full business attire, I think we'll all be fine.
It's a party of Karen's. What do you expect?
BTW he took his shoes off.
has he been spotted riding a bicycle already? That was among the most ridiculous of the Obama "scandals".
he rode a Citi Bike to work one of his first days in office, and the right collectively shit their pants. FOX News hosts went hoarse from screaming about it non-stop for a week
lol so predictable
Republicans fume at the mere existence of anyone different than them
In this case it's not about being different, but being successful and popular. Fascists don't have competence, they can't compete against competence.
In this case it’s not about being different, but being successful and popular.
That's different for them.
But the school budget is "bloated," how could he give more money to the public school system? Charter schools need that money so we can teach our future about being taken advantage of and being propagandized.
School budget is bloated but the ~~genocide~~ military fund could use another trillion or two.
Can we make the New York post just... Go away? They're a net negative on society
This but with right-wing ideology as a whole
That shit rag is necessary so nobody forgets and puts the guard down against the forces of evil trying to make everything foul.
This is extremely valuable to see wins on the local level, and that it is getting national press.
It will serve to blunt the years of "socialism = always bad" propaganda that has been endemic since forever. More local wins so we can elect and win on the state and national level in numbers with a mandate to actually get something done.
Tax the rich and educate the public. He must be evil
He literally is...
if you are an ultra wealthy oligarch that has a malignant cancer of greed.
Or their butt licker
I liked it when he froze the rent and a lot of Republicans started ranting about how people didn't have to pay rent at all. They might not know what a policy even is, but if it's Mamdammy, it must be bad.
NYPost editor sounds like a miserable shell of a human.
school budgets are dumb, my nyc high school would have the heat on in the spring because if they didn't use up the heat, they'd get less next year??
I just want to put this here for context...
NY Independent Budget Office FY 2026: https://www.ibo.nyc.gov/assets/ibo/downloads/pdf/education/2025/2025-december-a-slow-start-limited-progress-in-first-years-towards-class-size-compliance.pdf
Thanks for these. The New York State law that the city just comply with further contextualizes things.
- Strong teacher union making sure class sizes stay reasonable
- Politicians working to fund the public school systems
What’s not to like?
So he spent 700 million on schools ... in order to comply with state law.
Obviously, the Republicans are outraged. They hate complying with laws.
Why is there a picture of an even browner man in the top left? The gleefully happy school commissioner (NYC implies corruption)?
Hey, $700M is a lot of money! That's $81.50/ per New Yorker! That's $6.80 every month! Where are poorer New Yorkers going to get that kind of money? From some kind of public transit discount?!
That fucking bastard did what now?
Doesn't he know that educating people is a bad thing?!!?
bLoAtEd
Yeah seriously. I wonder what the article itself has to say about it. Probably nothing. Or just throwing absolute numbers around, like Joe Sixpack could never afford.
In a budget for 8½ million people, 700M is not much.
A man of the people
I love how they chose a picture that makes him look like he has the coke sweats.
Look, he just got out of the pool, there's no pleasing you people
Haven’t you ever heard of shrinkage?