"Bloated" lmao. I don't think there's a single school district in the US that has sufficient funding
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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
This is literally the logic used to route public money toward "charter" (private) schools.
The irony is that the US actually does spend more per capita on education than pretty much any other nation, but only because we've gutted public funding in favor of private providers and schools.
Same for our healthcare.
Our basic services are insanely expensive because we refuse to socialize them like a normal fucking country.
The result is hypocritical conservative headlines like the above that amount to a "NO SERVICES FUNDING, ONLY EDUCATED WORKFORCE" version of the frisbee dog meme.
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!
"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.
And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase.
Isn’t inflation currently like 4.1%? So this is not even a budgetary increase commensurate with inflation? Clowns.
In fairness, I think the budget itself had already increased this year before this new increase. This is 680 mil on top of the already increased budget.
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.
NYPost is written for leaded gasoline survivors.
Somehow directing millions to people's education is wasteful, but having a trillionary ($1.000.000.000.000.000.000) is totally reasonable.
I like how they say bloated. Carry that implication that public school bad.
It is bad. But only because it's been so chronically underfunded and dismantled by decades of abuse.
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.
Yeah, I can’t remember who it was that was screaming this over and over, but some right wing politician was freaking out saying “do you know how many New Yorkers are on Medicare?“ And all I could think was, “anyone who can’t afford their own,” because that’s what New York does. If you’re below a certain income level, and can’t afford your own insurance, New York State will cover you. I know this because that’s how I had health insurance when I lived in NYC. It’s awesome.
And here’s this Republican asshole, freaking out, making it sound like everyone having health insurance is somehow a bad thing, lol
The news tells you it's scary because for the people behind it it is.
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".
Yeah he participated in some bike day thing, where they closed down a street every year for a day or week or something, with a bunch of kids.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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?!
NYPost editor sounds like a miserable shell of a human.
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)?
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