Schools advice from a cop-killer’s fan: Another – Latest News
Anyone nonetheless hoping Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani means to reasonable ought to think about Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, tapped for his transition group’s committee on youth and schooling: You couldn’t ask for more radical credentials.
Shaakir-Ansari properly flew her true colours in an interview with the web site Lingua Franca: Asked “If you could spend an afternoon with any woman past or present — who would it be?” she selected . . . a convicted cop-killer: Assata Shakur
Shakur, previously Joanne Chesimard, was the Black Panther zealot convicted of the 1973 homicide of NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster who lived in exile in Cuba since a late-Seventies jail breakout.
She was on the FBI’s listing of most-wanted terrorists from 2013 till her death in September.
Makes excellent sense as a soulmate for Shaakir-Ansari, who’s a co-executive director on the far-left Alliance for Quality Education.
AQE, affiliated with a pack of progressive stress teams corresponding to Citizen Action, Make the Road and Communities for Change, is a clearinghouse for demanding ever-more faculty spending.
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No matter that New York City’s public-school system now spends more than $40,000 per scholar, vastly above the national average, even because it largely fails the minority kids the left claims to care about.
Shaakir-Ansari’s specific focus is “racial justice” a la the Panthers; she crusades for “culturally responsive education” — which means focusing classes for minority children on radical claptrap quite than on precise schooling.
And of course she’s a staunch foe of constitution faculties, regardless that (or as a result of?) they offer low-income New York kids their best hope on the form of schooling that results in typical success in life.
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In short, Shaakir-Ansari is strictly the sort of hard-line ideologue who shouldn’t be guiding New York City schooling coverage; her enter can solely undermine what good the system nonetheless manages to do.
That’s true of most of Mamdani’s transition mind trust; take Vincent Schiraldi, the anti-incarceration fanatic who’s on the committee for prison legal companies.
As the town’s jails boss below Mayor Bill de Blasio, he oversaw a enormous surge of jail violence; more lately, as Maryland’s chief of juvenile detention, he produced a statewide spike in teen crimes.
You can fake the transition group is solely symbolic, and so doesn’t guarantee the new mayor will lead the town into an countless string of disasters — however when the symbolism is so horrible, you possibly can anticipate the substance to be at the least as dangerous.
That Mamdani simply took the difficulty to tape a video instructing unlawful immigrants on how to evade ICE is an equally terrible signal.
New Yorkers are about to pay a ruinous price for getting this man’s claims to be centered on “affordability.”
