Mamdani's education plan's 'lack of merit' could fundamentally change student outcomes: GOP leader warns
NEW YORK, N.Y. — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s education agenda might be the most concerning of his administration and would have a damaging impact, a local GOP leader...
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NEW YORK, N.Y. — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ’s education agenda might be the most concerning of his administration and would have a damaging impact, a local GOP leader told Fox News Digital, arguing that schools will be shifting away from merit-based achievement under Mamdani's tenure. Mamdani has proposed phasing out the city’s gifted and talented programs for younger students over inequity concerns, a move critics argue could limit academic opportunities for high performers from low-income families. "That's my biggest concern," Forte told Fox News Digital. "The lack of merit and the lack of competitiveness…is going to lead to test scores declining and the quality of our education declining significantly." MAMDANI CONFRONTED ON 'THE VIEW' OVER APPOINTEE WHO CALLED HOMEOWNERSHIP 'WEAPON OF WHITE SUPREMACY' Forte went on to caution that Mamdani and the people he appoints would "gut" the entire program. "He's going to gut the gifted and talented program. He said this already," he said. "Who he's put into the Department of Education here in New York, gonna gut the program." He said Mamdani would transform the system into one "based on race and racial quotas," undermining academic fairness in schools. "It's not going to be about merit anymore," he said. "It's going be about what is somebody's skin color? What is their race? They're going to make this an equity-based system based on race and racial quotas, and a lottery system. That is no way to have education. That is no way to educate students." But he said this would backfire, with Mamdani’s plan ultimately harming students. " What this is going to do is lower test scores across the board, it is going to lower expectations across the board, and students are going to suffer because of it." 'ZOHRANOMICS': NYC MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S SOCIALIST MATH DOESN’T ADD UP Turning to the new curriculum, he said teachers will eventually lead students to "hate their history." "We don't know what he's going to be implementing…