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After two months helming New York Metropolis colleges, Kamar Samuels is predicted to announce his cupboard members on Thursday as high Schooling Division officers say their goodbyes.
Appearing First Deputy Chancellor Isabel DiMola, the varsity system’s second in command, introduced plans to retire in a Wednesday night letter to employees. She was tapped to fill the position by former Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos after a earlier high deputy, Dan Weisberg, stepped down.
Additionally leaving her put up: Deputy Chancellor for College Management Danika Rux, who supervises 44 superintendents charged with immediately managing principals. Rux oversaw the system’s studying and math curriculum overhauls, a significant precedence underneath former Mayor Eric Adams.
In a Wednesday letter asserting plans to step down, Rux stated she is “excited to see Samuels deepen the work and construct his staff.” Samuels has beforehand stated he plans to maintain the literacy mandate adjustments in place however has steered there might be tweaks to the maths program.
Cristina Meléndez, the deputy chancellor of household, group, and pupil empowerment, had beforehand introduced her departure.
The flurry of employees adjustments is no surprise, as Samuels is predicted to assemble his personal cupboard to exchange the one he inherited from the prior administration. Any new appointees will play an necessary position implementing Samuels’ priorities. The brand new administration’s imaginative and prescient for the bigger system stays a query mark, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated little about his plans for the town colleges.
In a message to principals, Samuels wrote that he’s making an announcement Thursday concerning the system’s “organizational construction” and deliberate to convene college leaders shortly after the official announcement.
In her letter to highschool staffers, DiMola reminisced about her 30 years in training. She began on the age of twenty-two instructing social research at Abraham Lincoln Excessive College in Coney Island, Brooklyn, working her manner via the ranks as an assistant principal, principal, and superintendent. For 16 years, she served because the superintendent of Brooklyn’s District 21, the identical district the place she attended public colleges rising up.
Rux additionally started her training profession 30 years in the past, beginning as a instructor and dealing her manner up from a college chief to superintendent.
“Every step alongside this path has strengthened my perception that management in training is in the end about individuals,” she wrote in her farewell to staffers. “It’s concerning the relationships we domesticate, the belief we construct, and the collective duty we stock for the success of each pupil in our care.”
Rux is leaving her put up as a deputy chancellor to change into a senior advisor to the Schooling Division’s Workplace of the Common Counsel, she wrote.
Former Chancellor Aviles-Ramos introduced a brand new job of her personal this week. She has a senior position at HMH, a curriculum firm with robust ties to the varsity system, a transfer that has raised eyebrows.
Alex Zimmerman is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, overlaying NYC public colleges. Contact Alex at azimmerman@chalkbeat.org.
Amy Zimmer is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat New York. Contact Amy at azimmer@chalkbeat.org.
