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Brad Lander's Framework for Great Public Schools and Critique of Cuomo and Adams

Published May 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:14

So if a teacher could afford a mortgage for $400,000, but they can't find a home for 400,000, The city's pension funds will invest right alongside [teachers], another $400,000. 400. Now they could pay $800,000 and be long term homeowners in the city they love and are teaching. (07:14–07:20)

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Asserts that the city's pension funds will co-invest with teachers to help them afford homes.

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“The mayor is responsible for the largest school district in the country, over 900,000 students, tens of thousands of educators on a $27…”
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“Right now, one out of eight of our students experience homelessness at some point in the year.”
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“The homeless sweeps program, over the most recent six month period, forcibly removed over 3,000 people from where they were sleeping.”
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“Not a single one of them got connected to housing and permanent housing and services.”
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“The vast majority, over 95%, were just back on the street that very night.”
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“Our schools have struggled mightily in recent years through the challenges of the pandemic, through budget cuts by the Adams administration…”
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“This is the first and right now the only comprehensive plan for public education released by any candidate in the mayor's race.”
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“We need those [structured literacy programs] in every school district as well.”
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“One of the things the Adams administration is getting right is the NYC Reeds program with phonics education for all our kids.”
Brad Lander's Framework for Great Public Schools and Critique of Cuomo and Adams | Uploaded May 6, 2025 | 04:12-04:19
“I'll also build a stronger and more diverse teaching pipeline offering free CUNY tuition for teachers who launch, who teach in New York City…”
Brad Lander's Framework for Great Public Schools and Critique of Cuomo and Adams | Uploaded May 6, 2025 | 06:12-06:26
“We will launch Homes for City Workers, my innovative program to invest city pension funds to double the price of a home a teacher could…”
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“The Framework for Great Public Schools is built on research from the University of Chicago's School Research Consortium called the Five…”
Brad Lander's Framework for Great Public Schools and Critique of Cuomo and Adams | Uploaded May 6, 2025 | 07:45-07:52
“In his very first year, the mayor cut tens of millions of dollars from schools all across the city.”
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“I'll also go up to Albany and say, hey, we need new resources for mental health.”
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“We need new resources for homeless students.”
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“We need new resources to address chronic absenteeism.”
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“We've got to revisit the formula that allocates schools, given the, you know, was developed in 2007.”
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“Andrew Cuomo really revealed himself last week...he went on a right wing podcast and said...the Democratic Party has become the far left.”
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“Andrew Cuomo's mental health plan is basically a ripoff of my Safer for All plan without the housing and services.”
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“My plan to end street homelessness for people with serious mental illness through a comprehensive and coordinated continuum of care.”
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“We audited the Adams administration's mental health programs and found them to be failing utterly.”
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“Andrew Cuomo is doubling down on Eric Adams fake failed mental health programs.”
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“Deputy Mayor Randy Masro is continuing the worst instincts of the Adams administration.”
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“Putting ICE on Rikers island while ICE is abandoning due process and deporting people to torture prisons in El Salvador.”
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“Mayor Adams and Deputy Mayor Mastro's executive budget is from a fantasy land.”
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“His budget cuts don't threaten our schools, our health care, and our housing services.”
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