Democratic candidate Eric Adams handily won Tuesday’s New York City mayoral election, putting him at the center of a pivotal moment in education.
Adams will take over amid a pandemic, when the city’s education department is still assessing the damage done by three disrupted school years. He could influence hotly contested policies on gifted programs, student vaccine mandates, and policing in schools.
In terms of his priorities for education, Adams has often talked about expanding the notion of schooling from K-12 to “birth to profession,” or “cradle to career,” as he sometimes says. He’s a proponent of career and technical education, and as someone who faced schooling challenges because of a learning disability, he often talks about improving the system for children with learning differences, including ramping up dyslexia screening tools.
But overall, he has detailed few specifics in his education platform on the campaign trail.
