Want to be a teacher in NYC? Mamdani says he'll subsidize your tuition if you commit 3 years.

""This city faces an urgent question of where and how will we find them," Mamdani said."

""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, and one key part of that is ensuring that they have a limited number of students in their classroom," he said."

Zohran Mamdani proposes tuition assistance for prospective educators in exchange for a three-year commitment to teach in New York City public schools. The plan aims to recruit roughly 1,000 additional teachers per year at an estimated annual cost of $12 million, funded by savings from cutting contracts and trimming Education Department bureaucracy. New York's 2022 class size law requires classroom caps of 20–25 students by 2028, creating an estimated need for nearly 18,000 additional teachers. Supporters at the announcement included State Sen. John Liu and city teachers union officials, and the city has already started a major hiring effort.

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