The Marxist Left always seeks to control education.
As much as I don’t care about the mayhem and destruction of New Yuck City, what I do care about is the generation of school children he will be able to indoctrinate when he turns the schools in to worse communist indoctrination centers than they already are. He doesn’t have a clue what he is doing, but the seasoned radicals he will be installing in the bureaucracy do.