If Eric Adams is serious about cutting fat at NYC DOE, it’s a target-rich environment

Team Adams is vowing to target fat at the city’s Department of Education, and a report last week by The Post’s Susan Edelman shows why it should waste no time: Over the past seven years, the department’s budget ballooned a jaw-dropping 60 percent — from $20 billion to $32 billion, plus another $5 billion in pension costs.

Outlays for central-administration educrats and school-support personnel soared about $87 million and $180 million, respectively. The combined headcount grew 44 percent, with the number of managers, analysts, supervisors and specialists soaring to 5,100 from 3,500 since 2014....