Zohran Mamdani: “The Department of Education is the agency that city…”

“I think there's also a real question of governance, of focus, of even internal reform. What I mean by that is that The Department of Education is the agency that city Government spends the most on of any agency by a lot. of. We spend about $10 billion within that department on contracts. Now, some of those contracts are ones that are individualized per school district.” (24:33–24:40)

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