New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this weekend reiterated his plan to use “wealth redistribution” to correct structural racism and other issues that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
“Education must be front and center,” said de Blasio during a news conference on Friday. “There has been so much that needed to be addressed in education in New York City. And from the beginning, what I tried to focus on was a very simple concept – equity and excellence – that we needed to profoundly change the distribution of resources.”
The mayor’s plan for education in 2021 will focus on closing the “COVID achievement gap” and ensuring fairness for all children, with a special focus on the 27 minority neighborhoods hardest-hit by COVID.
Key elements of the plan include:
- Middle school: one year pause on screens
- High school: elimination of geographic priority for two years
- Expansion of diversity planning in all districts
- Expansion of grant application programs
- Free pre-K and 3-K for all
- Changes to school funding formulas
- Advanced placement courses in every high school
“We have been doing this work for seven years to more equitably redistribute resources throughout our school system,” said de Blasio. And this work “has to intensify now given all the lessons we’ve learned during this most painful of years.”
Police reform will be another key goal as we move into the New Year, continued de Blasio, referencing a recent analysis on the riots that plagued the city in the months following the killing of George Floyd.
“We will implement the recommendations in the Department of Investigation report, but we’re going to go farther than that. The work of reforming the NYPD…of changing police culture, that work must intensify and it will in the year 2021. A lot is already being planned that will be unveiled in the coming weeks, but the bottom line is we can never accept a broken statue quo,” said de Blasio. “We can never go back to a past that didn’t work. The COVID era has taught us that so clearly, and we need to do better and we will. And that means a commitment to fighting disparities and inequality in every part in the life in New York City.”
“If we think we’re going to deal with structural racism and segregation without redistribution of wealth, we’re kidding ourselves,” he added.
Author’s Note: De Blasio’s announcement comes amid a mass exodus from the Big Apple as residents and financial experts leave the city for warmer climes and lower taxes (read more here).
It doesn’t do much good to redistribute wealth if the wealthy people are moving away.
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Bill deBlasio,aka Warren Wilhelm Jr. is a true communist who sided with the Sandinista’s in the 1970’s.
Does that mean he will start with his unearned wealth & his salary redistribute to the poor???
why doesn’t DeLousio just stick his head back up his
butt and resign. White Privledge at its worst
why are “conservatives” so fucking stupid?
What is the MATTER with these people… THROW THEM OUT. Can we Outlaw the LEFT SOCIALIST…get it out of our schools, universities.
This man was raised under Communist ideology. Voters need to research a candidate BEFORE casting a ballot. He acts as a dictator which Communism provides. de Blasio is representative of the entire Democrat party. Communism is their ideology. If you think Biden, Harris, Schumer, Pelosi et al. are any different you’re mistaken.
So is there anymore business in New York? How does De blasio expect to redistribute no money at all? Oh that’s right! Dementia Joe will bail him out with monopoly money! Why do you think America was doing so good under Trump? Because he knows how to run a business! De blasio doesn’t!
What are the people in New York doing? The entire state of New York is going down. In one year New York will disappear. DeBlasio and Cupmo are determined to destroy New York. I just don’t understand. If the people and the media want to let him get away with this, then they deserve what they will get.
Trump only knows how to run a cushiness into bankruptcy
NYC under DeBlasio and NY State are going down hill faster than one can imagine.
It hurts me to see it. I grew up in NYC and my family goes back 4 + generations in NYC .
Unfortunately , my generation has fled the city due to it’s poor management and loss of opportunity.
To see the loss of businesses etc to other parts of the country due to city leaders not listening ? to those companies that had for so many years been stabilizing forces is very disturbing and sad ?.
In talking to friends that still live their I wan’t to cry for them,
One friend who was a NYC police ? officer now calls the city the New Moscow.
That says it all.
He’s doing this just to salvage the remaining voters. How to take an once great city and in turn it into a third world hell hole.
Will never work. Will just cause more trouble. He may be a mayor but to me he is dirt.