Nearly a year into his administration, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has not shared a vision for addressing many of the pressing challenges facing the New York City school system.
One of the most urgent is the small schools crisis, driven by years of declining enrollment.
It’s a crisis that past administrations have allowed to fester — and one that some district leaders and principals say Mamdani and his schools chancellor, Kamar Samuels, could make a defining feature of their education agenda. By closing and merging schools, Samuels and Mamdani could cut costs, expand academic opportunities for vulnerable students, and help integrate students from different backgrounds, proponents argue.
But it remains to be seen whether the Mamdani administration is willing to spend the time and political capital necessary to close and merge schools at scale — and in the face of likely pushback from families and educators.
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