Eric Adams calls out UFT to help NYC recruit talent to comply with class size law

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday urged the powerful teachers’ union Tuesday to step up and help boost recruitment so that New York City can comply with the new state-enforced class size mandate.

Hizzoner called out the United Federation of Teachers a day after his Schools Chancellor, David Banks, insisted the Big Apple will need to triple its rate of hiring teachers just to meet the class-size law requirements.

“We need help from UFT because we have a teacher shortage issue,” Adams said during a City Hall briefing when asked about the mandate.

“We want the UFT to help us, everyday leaders to help us, on how are we going to attract people in. We have to attract more teachers into the system.”

While the Big Apple can manage to reduce classrooms sizes to comply with the law over the next two years, the mayor said the city still needs help to attract teachers.

“We are not looking to modify anything. The law is the law,” Adams said. “We want to partner with the UFT and department in the recruitment of these teachers.”