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[quote=Anonymous]I'm voting for some combination of Lander / Mamdani (and probably also Adrienne Adams) despite their wishy-washiness about selective schools, because I think they're savvy enough to realize that the SHSAT is the third rail of NYC politics and not worth taking on (heck, Mamdani attended Bronx Science and his dad is a celebrated academic), and I think they're going to have enough other stuff to deal with to not want to waste political capital on that particular fight.

I also worry Cuomo would be willing to give in on stuff like removing LGBT+ material from classrooms, or - even worse - letting ICE into schools; there are scarier things looming in the next few years than de-emphasizing testing in high school admissions.

Some of this confidence comes from past experience living in Connecticut, when Ned Lamont came in in 2019 with a very modest plan to regionalize public schools and it completely blew up in his face - if it hadn't been for COVID it would have probably made him a one-term governor. I also saw the amount of backlash among parents to that small delay in simply renewing the SHSAT contract.

But basically, while I don't agree with them on schools, I don't expect that disagreement to matter much over the next few years, and there are other areas I agree with them that probably will matter a lot more.[/quote]

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