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The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, questions for Mayor Mamdani for tomorrow's Ask the Mayor |
| 0:19.5 | Segment, 212-433, WNYC, 433, 9692. |
| 0:26.4 | Kate and Queens, you're on WNYC. |
| 0:28.2 | Hi, Kate. |
| 0:30.1 | Hi, Brian. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm calling because I have a question for the mayor about tech and school. |
| 0:35.2 | Last week, the American Federation of Teachers issued a statement saying |
| 0:39.3 | they wanted to limit screen time for kids. Last week, the chancellor of New York City |
| 0:44.0 | School said something about revisiting their AI policy, and I kind of have a two-fold question. |
| 0:48.5 | One is the mayor willing to revisit use of tech in schools. There's so much screen time |
| 0:53.7 | right now. I have a first grader, |
| 0:55.4 | and everything is a video, everything is forced evaluation of kids via something called eye ready. |
| 1:02.9 | Is the mayor willing to revisit tech use in schools and limit and join on to the AI moratorium? |
| 1:10.7 | That's being proposed. |
| 1:11.6 | Such an important question. |
| 1:13.4 | Definitely on lots of parents' minds. |
| 1:15.6 | Kate, thank you. |
| 1:16.8 | Here's one in a text for the mayor. |
| 1:19.3 | How can you justify a rent freeze when you haven't offered a property tax freeze? |
| 1:24.3 | When will we get meaningful property tax reform? |
| 1:30.9 | Ask that listener. Millie on the Upper West Side you're on WNYC. Hi, Millie. Hi, Brian. Thank you so much. I'm calling because there are so many |
| 1:39.4 | streets in the city right now and DOT is out of control because of their relationship with |
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