With Omicron propelling record infections and long pre-holiday lines outside testing facilities, the mayor and Mayor-elect Eric Adams scrambled to assure New Yorkers that we’ll get through the "fast and temporary phenomenon" of the variant.
Porter, who is set to leave the DOE when Mayor de Blasio’s term ends on Dec. 31 to lead a Bronx foundation, said she’s come to fully appreciate the importance of racial and gender representation in the city’s top schools job during her visits with educators and kids.
The city Education Department overhauled the complex admissions system last year to account for the pandemic’s upheaval of state exams and school grading systems metrics many schools have traditionally relied on to rank student applicants.