Education Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos is laying out why she should continue running the nation’s largest school district, articulating her vision of how she could implement Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s vague calls to end mayoral control of schools .

Aviles-Ramos said she’s open to boosting parents’ and educators’ voices within the existing school bureaucracy. She said the Panel for Educational Policy, or PEP, which votes on school contracts, as well as a range of citywide and district-based parent advisory councils could be strengthened.

Mamdani made broad statements during the campaign about his vision for the city’s public schools, which serve nearly 900,000 students, saying he is “opposed to mayoral control” but that the buck ultimately stops with the mayor.

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