Yay! ‘Abolitionists’ will NOT run Children’s – Latest News
We’re overjoyed that City Hall has plainly heeded The Post’s reporting and determined to not rent an “abolitionist” to run the Administration for Children’s Services.
Happy, to be clear, as a result of going forward would’ve meant unnecessary continued abuse and even deaths of youngsters the town knew to be in peril.
On Friday, Angela Burton, who calls herself an abolitionist as a result of she thinks ACS enforcers are in observe anti-minority, advised The New York Times that she’s no longer within the working to steer the embattled company.
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The different, like-minded “finalist” for the job, Queens Legal Services project director Michelle Burrell, had already dropped out.
The Mamdani administration evidently had the knowledge to rethink its supposed course: Hooray!
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The Post’s David Spector revealed final month that Mayor Zohran Mamdani was seeking to rent a radical activist — who likened little one protecting companies to genocide — to steer the town’s welfare company for kids.
Even earlier, Post contributor Naomi Schaefer Riley warned of the new administration’s plans to switch the company’s (horrible, however not as horrible) departing chief, Jess Dannhauser, with an even worse choose.
Now these plans are off; the town’s abused and uncared for youngsters dodged a bullet.
We hope this evokes Gov. Kathy Hochul to rethink her determination to signal a new law banning the use of nameless suggestions in child-welfare investigations: Put repeal in your agenda now, gov!
Mamdani can chart a new course for ACS by appointing a true skilled who believes in its mission, places youngsters’ wants first and understands that eradicating weak youngsters from high-risk houses isn’t genocide — it’s salvation.
Find a devoted civil servant alongside the traces of de Blasio-era ACS chief David Hansell, and keep the ideologues out.
