That's why Daniel has worked to improve our public schools as part of the effort to move resources out of the bureaucracy and into the classroom.

It's why he will fight to make sure that our schools are fully funded - so we can build more classrooms and guarantee every child in the city has access to a world-class public education.

Today, the New York City Department of Education and the State Department of Education have expensive systems in place that judge schools using the same old-fashioned standardized tests we have been using for generations. Without streamlining the system we are wasting dollars in the bureaucracy, instead of investing them with teachers and students in the classroom. Daniel supports creating a unified system of accountability, and investing the savings in our classrooms.

He also believes that it's time to get past "teaching to the test." Our accountability system must not be wholly dependent on anachronistic fill-in-the-bubble standardized tests. Standards are crucial, but Daniel will push to make sure the schools utilize our 21st Century capacity to analyze a diversity of factors - from basic skills to college readiness, from classroom attendance to parent engagement - so that a rigorous comprehensive education does not fall victim to full-time test prep.

Read Daniel's education plan here: EducationWP.pdf