Faculties Chancellor David Banks could also be leaving, however his daughter is transferring up the ranks within the metropolis Division of Training, The Publish has discovered.
Whereas Banks, his brother Philip and his spouse Sheena Wright have all give up Mayor Adams’ administration amid a number of corruption probes, David’s daughter Aaliyah has landed a coveted district-level publish with out assembly the posted necessities.
Aaliyah Banks, 35, has a state license to show college students with disabilities in grades 7 by way of 12, however began this fall in Brooklyn’s District 14 as an ELA (English Language Arts) Implementation Specialist for elementary grades, mentioned a spokesman for the town Division of Training.
The job requires “at the least eight years of profitable instructing expertise,” in keeping with a DOE advert for the place. She has 5 years as a state-licensed instructor.
The job posting, which a DOE spokesman supplied, additionally says candidates should have a instructing license in early childhood schooling, which covers beginning to grade 2, or in grades 1-6. Aaliyah has neither.
She was a special-ed instructor in grades 6 to 12 on the Bronx Faculty of Legislation, Authorities and Justice, based by her father.
“It’s not stunning that the chancellor’s daughter is benefitting from the Banks household’s second era of nepotism,” mentioned a instructor knowledgeable of the transfer. “Why would I anticipate his daughter to fulfill the minimal necessities?”
DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer insisted the youthful Banks has eight years of instructing expertise, saying she began in 2017 underneath another NYC certification. However metropolis and state data present in any other case.
She obtained a transitional special-ed instructor certificates in 2019, and her preliminary certificates in February 2023, in keeping with a state schooling division registry.
Metropolis payroll data, posted on Seethroughny.internet, checklist her as a neighborhood affiliate — a non-teaching place –in Fiscal 12 months 2017, a special-ed substitute in FY 2018 and FY 2019, and a special-ed instructor for 5 college years beginning in FY 2020.
Her present wage, $98,481, relies on eight years of instructing with a Grasp’s diploma, Styer mentioned. The district job doesn’t improve it. That’s up from $79,193 in FY 2022-23, the newest payroll information accessible on seethrough.internet.
District 14 superintendent David Cintron, a former Bronx principal promoted by David Banks in June 2022, not too long ago employed the chancellor’s daughter to affix his staff.
“All of us met her at our first principals’ assembly. She launched herself by saying she was from the Bronx,” a District 14 administrator recalled.
“One in every of my colleagues pulled me apart and advised me [she was David Banks’ daughter]. He was suggested to be very cautious what we are saying round her.”
Regardless of not having the required license, “The totality of an individual’s resume and expertise had been thought of, and Ms. Banks’ certification in particular schooling made her a great candidate for this function,” Styer mentioned.
He mentioned 9 of 33 candidates tapped for the roles in 9 districts “had been employed with licenses exterior of these listed on the job description,” together with six in special-ed.
Chancellor Banks launched and hugged his daughter on the Sept. 25 information convention with Mayor Adams when he introduced his retirement from the DOE and congratulated Melissa Aviles-Ramos on her appointment as his successor.
Two college students from the Bronx college gave bouquets to each father and daughter, praising Aaliyah as “wonderful” and “the best NHS (Nationwide Honor Society) adviser,” bringing her to tears.
The chancellor hailed Meisha Ross Porter, his predecessor and former principal at the highschool, for first hiring his daughter.
“She only in the near past left originally of this college 12 months,” Banks mentioned, with out explaining the place she went.
“She adopted in my footsteps in schooling,” he mentioned. “Nothing might make me prouder as a dad, to see my daughter carrying on the values that I poured into her.”
Chancellor Banks, superintendent Cintron and Aaliyah Banks didn’t return requests for remark.
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