Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani unveiled a vague new proposal Tuesday to cut waste at the city Department of Education — just days after announcing a $12 million teacher hiring scheme.

The left-wing Democratic nominee joined City Council Member Julie Won and State Senator Robert Jackson on the Upper West Side to release a new arm of his education policy eyeing the DOE’s bloated, $46 billion budget.

“The costs of this agenda are minimal; they will be dwarfed by the immense savings,” Mamdani said, without providing specifics. 3

The socialist Queens state assemblyman declined to give a hard number, while insisting his three-pronged approach would net a 10% reduction in wasteful spending.

But any public funds spent would seem to be earmarked for Mamdani’s other new plan to

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