Gov. Andrew Cuomo seems to base his recent actions and statements about education on mistaken assumptions.

He seems to think that New York parents support privatizing public education. They don’t.

He also seems to believe that voters are blind to the governor’s ties to the hedge-fund types who want to privatize schools. They aren’t.

He further appears to think that parents share his own irrational dislike of public school teachers. They don’t.

The governor has been spouting rhetoric against New York’s public schools for months now. But a new low came Dec. 18 when one of his top aides intimated in a letter to State Education Commissioner John King that Cuomo would use the state’s budget process to ram through proposals favored by the charter school and privatization movement.

These include: abolishing or curtailing tenure; introducing teacher merit pay; eliminating the cap on charter schools; overhauling the law on mayoral control; cracking down on struggling schools; and giving the governor more control over Board of Regents appointments.

The governor should think again. He risks alienating New York voters more than he already has, as evidenced by his anemic showing in the Democratic primary.

He should consider New Yorkers’ strong support for public schools. In New York City, voters resoundingly rejected the education policies that Cuomo is considering when they elected Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Upstate, polls show that support for local schools is also deep and strong. In a Times Union/Siena College poll in June, respondents were asked who knows what is best for students, and they put local teachers at the top of the list. After that, in descending order, came: the local school board, the state Board of Regents, teachers unions, Gov. Cuomo, Commissioner King and the state Legislature.

If Cuomo really wants to help the state’s public schools, he will make sure they get adequate funding. And if he wants to understand more specifically what schools need, he should heed the advice of respondents in that upstate poll and talk to a teacher.