{"id":149443,"date":"2025-09-07T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149443"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:21:41","slug":"money-to-burn-billionaire-heiress-funded-mamdani-woke-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/money-to-burn-billionaire-heiress-funded-mamdani-woke-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Money to burn? Billionaire heiress funded Mamdani, \u2018woke math\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, September 7, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
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The socialist who believes billionaires shouldn’t exist has taken a hefty donation from a billionaire heiress who is heavily into “woke math.”<\/p>\n

If their calculations are correct, socialist Zohran Mamdani will be the next New York mayor with an assist from hedge fund heiress Liz Simons.<\/p>\n

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Liz Simons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simons, who is bankrolling a national push to transform children into socialist revolutionaries by bringing \u201cwoke math\u201d into public schools, has gifted $250,000 to a PAC supporting Mamdani, the New York Post reported<\/a> on Sept. 6.<\/p>\n

In June, Mamdani told NBC: \u201cI don\u2019t think that we should have billionaires, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simons, who oversees a foundation with a near-billion-dollar endowment, seeks to replace traditional math in public schools with race and LGBTQ-obsessed leftist social justice lessons.<\/p>\n

“For instance, a lesson on how to use graphs to perform math could take a huge detour with teachers trying to drive home the point that there\u2019s income disparity between white Americans and people of color,” Rich Carter wrote for The Post.<\/p>\n

Though Mamdani has not mentioned woke math on the campaign trail, critics fear Simons\u2019s support signals the Democrat mayoral candidate will embrace it.<\/p>\n

Yiatin Chu, of Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum & Education and the Asian Wave Alliance, told The Post she has \u201cgrave concerns\u201d about the direction of public schools under Mamdani and that Simons\u2019s influence is \u201ctroubling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWoke math lowers the bar without helping black students. While test results show gains among black and Hispanic students, the gap with Asian and white students hasn\u2019t closed. We hope Mamdani doesn\u2019t undo progress,\u201d Chu said. \u201cThis megadonor may impact his chancellor choice or NYC\u2019s math curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woke lessons teach students more about \u201chow to be political activists\u201d than actual math, said Jean Hahn, a public-school parent in Queens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m already concerned as a parent that Mamdani has stated he will resume\u201d many of former far-left Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s \u201cdiversity initiatives, which were racially toxic,\u201d said Hahn.<\/p>\n

Simons inherited a fortune after her father, Jim Simons, a top mathematician turned hedge-fund legend died in May 2024 with a net worth over $31 billion.<\/p>\n

“The Heising-Simons Foundation, co-founded by Simons and her philanthropist husband Mark Heising, has given millions to the woke math cause \u2014 including $1.7 million since 2023 to the Racial Justice in Early Mathematics Project at Chicago\u2019s Erikson Institute,” Carter noted.<\/p>\n

In Chicago, less than one in five public school students can do basic math, based on recent test scores.<\/p>\n

In March, the foundation gave RJEM $800,000 to organize seminars, toolkits, and support for teachers adding \u201cracial justice\u201d to math classes. Two years earlier, it gave $900,000 for $7,000 teacher grants to promote \u201cracial justice\u201d through early math.<\/p>\n

From 2022 through 2023, Heising-Simons also gave at least $4 million to other groups backing woke math, including $630,825 to San Francisco-based Tandem Partners in Early Learning and $665,000 to Arizona\u2019s Illustrative Mathematics, according to its latest available tax filings.<\/p>\n

It also funded a \u201cmathematics education\u201d program in Alexandria, Virginia, encouraging K\u20132 students at one school to count picture book characters by race and create a racial scorecard \u2014 including tracking books with few white characters.<\/p>\n

Virginia schools ranked last in the U.S. \u2014 51st among the 50 states and D.C. \u2014 in math recovery between 2019 and 2024 with Alexandria public schools students reading more than a grade level behind where they were pre-pandemic, according to the Nation\u2019s Report Card released in January.<\/p>\n

An August RealClearInvestigations report<\/a> found \u201cno credible research\u201d proving the woke math approach improves performance.<\/p>\n

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