Zohran Mamdani: “Certain students are pushed out of [charter] schools [at]…”

“I've. Well, I've shared my skepticism on charter schools. And, and what I've said is, is a skepticism that is in part born out of the ways in which Certain students are pushed out of [charter] schools [at] disproportionate rates of suspension. for certain sets of students and the manner in which, you know, when, when I was at the heart of a fight in Albany to finally fund our public school …” (22:37–23:03)

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