Mamdani’s plan to ruin public education in New York - Jonathan Turley

Zohran Mamdani appears to have a plan for leveling the playing fields in education.

• Faced with a huge number of students with comparably dismal scores in math, English, and science, Mamdani is going to bulldoze higher-achieving programs. 

It is a pledge that only Soviet central planner would relish.
By eliminating gifted and talented program in lower grades, Mamdani will increase equity through mediocrity...

• The result is that politicians like Mamdani are virtually pushing high-achieving families and students out of public education. 
• Once they are gone, the glaring contrasts in proficiency among programs will also be gone...