{"id":1004189,"date":"2026-08-16T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1004189\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:53:33","slug":"nyc-teachers-union-president-blasts-mayor-zohran-mamdani-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1004189\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Teachers Union President Blasts Mayor Zohran Mamdani Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UFT President Michael Mulgrew criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s rollout of NYC Reads amid falling reading proficiency, citing concerns over implementation. In an August 12 interview, Mulgrew said the union would not support the program if the administration repeats this year&#8217;s approach to NYC Reads and NYC Solves. He noted recent state data showing grades 3\u20138 reading proficiency at 50.3%, down from about 56% the prior year. Mamdani, 34, defended the initiative as based on effective practices. In May, the city announced an expansion focused on rigorous instruction and teacher support across public schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFT President Michael Mulgrew criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s rollout of NYC Reads amid falling reading proficiency, citing concerns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1004190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,123635,43433,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,402093,402092,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":["post-1004189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-implementation","tag-michael-mulgrew","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-reads","tag-reading-proficiency","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117104581315240442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}