Mike Mulgrew’s dirty game — blaming Mamdani for – Latest News
We’re on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s facet on this one: United Federation of Teachers chief Mike Mulgrew is attempting in charge this 12 months’s dismal public-school scores on state studying exams on how the Department of Education administered the literacy curriculum this previous 12 months.
The new NYC Reads began phasing in below Mayor Eric Adams, however Mulgrew now whines, “The DOE needs to make sure each school has a clear instructional plan,” together with “streamlining what schools are doing” and “eliminating unnecessary paperwork and assessments.”
This is a blatant “not our fault” offensive by the union boss, after children in grades 3-8 noticed a 6% drop of their English scores from final 12 months, with more than half in grades 3 to five ranking under no circumstances proficient.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani holds a press convention on the Garden School in Jackson Heights, Queens, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. Stephen Yang for NY Post
OK, we don’t suppose a lot of Mamdani’s plans for the public colleges, however a important half of that’s his refusal to confront the mess the UFT has made of the system by defending outright incompetents and opposing any type of instructor accountability.
Notice Mulgrew’s gripe about “unnecessary assessments”: Teachers unions (and the State Education Department forms they now successfully control) despise goal exams that reveal how little the children have realized.
And the DOE forms performs alongside, too: In explicit, it’s delaying the release of the information on how college students on the metropolis’s public constitution colleges did on those self same exams.
The Success Academy community has revealed that 91% of its students rated proficient in English, 96% in math; few different charters will try this effectively, nevertheless it’s an extraordinarily secure guess that they’ll put the DOE colleges to disgrace.
This is why metropolis constitution enrollment rises 12 months after 12 months, whereas the DOE’s rolls shrink: The constitution sector, with over 150,000 college students, now accounts for 16% of the town public-school Okay-12 population.
United Teachers Federation president Mike Mulgrew speaks outdoors of the Mickey Mantle School PS 811 on the Upper West Side in New York on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Stephen Yang
But Mulgrew’s blame game requires him to faux that DOE directors are what stop his members from matching the charters’ outcomes, so he says of the literacy curriculum, “We’re not going to support it if they want to implement it the way they did this past school year.”
First, the Mamdani DOE denies making any modifications or including new necessities on lecturers.
Second, what does it even imply to say the UFT gained’t “support” instructing kids to learn?
Actually, these check scores recommend the union’s already anti-literacy.
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It’s so pathetic: DOE lessons don’t even begin till Sept. 10 this 12 months as a result of Mulgrew negotiated a contract that entitles lecturers to 2 prep days after Labor Day earlier than the children show up; below Mayor Mike Bloomberg, educators needed to return earlier than Labor Day for that classroom prep.
Success colleges are already back, as are a number of different charters: The largely non-union sector is aware of children need on daily basis of studying attainable.
Mulgrew & Co. receives a commission good money — six figures, with the entire summer time off — to supply good outcomes.
He ought to shut up and educate.
