In a bid to make it easier for New York City to comply with the state’s class size law , Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to boost the number of teachers in the system by footing the bill for aspiring educators to earn degrees.

Mamdani unveiled a plan on Wednesday to provide students with $12,000 in tuition assistance each year, in exchange for a commitment to stay in the city’s school system for at least three years.

“The teachers we have are doing incredible work, but we need to ensure that we ask them to do a job that is in fact possible,” Mamdani said at press conference in Astoria, Queens with local education committee chairs from the State Senate and City Council and teachers union officials.

“One key part of that is ensuring that they have a limited number

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