Mamdani’s Socialist Failure Factory Experiment in New York City’s Schools

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral election essentially puts the Democratic Socialist in charge of the nation’s largest school system.

Chris Papst’s “Failure Factory: How Baltimore City Public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future” is a brilliant, groundbreaking exposé of the Baltimore City Schools. It is comparable to Lincoln Steffens’ classic, “The Shame of the Cities.” That 1904 work helped launch the progressive movement, which reformed state and local government for o…