The mayor-elect’s turnaround came as he selected Kamar Samuels to lead New York City’s school system at a precarious moment.

Today is the first day for New York City public schools back from winter break, with a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and a new ...

As he named a new schools chancellor Wednesday, the day before becoming New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani reversed course ...

Susan Stammler, executive director of United Neighborhood Houses, which represent neighborhood settlement houses that provide ...

The governor and the mayor need each other, and that offers a chance for synthesis at a time when the center and left are ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani taps Manhattan Superintendent Kamar Samuels as his new schools chancellor and said he wants to ...

On the campaign trail, Mamdani expressed interest in sharing more authority with students, parents and the adults who make ...

Mayoral control has been in place since 2002, when then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg pushed state lawmakers to dissolve the city’s elected school boards, citing dysfunction and a lack of accountability.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered city corrections officials to come up with a plan to bring NYC jails into compliance with a ...

In his November victory speech, New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, observed that “a great New Yorker”—his vanquished opponent’s father, Mario Cuomo—“once said that while you campaign in poetry ...