NEW YORK CITY (WABC) New York City Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter started her first day on the job in Red Hook, Brooklyn at PS 15, The Patrick Day School.
Fifth-grade students Annabri McCloud and Maliyah Bell served as docents and tour guides for the new chancellor. Strung across the wall was a banner with Chancellor Porter s name written in glittery red letters, reading Welcome Chancellor Porter, dream it, believe it, achieve it.
Chancellor Porter thanked the employees at the school for their work during the pandemic.
The fifth-grade tour guides presented Porter with two gifts to mark her first day, and the historic first appointment of a Black woman as chancellor.
As Porter begins her new position, the city looks to move forward from a pandemic that ravaged so many lives and left tens of thousands of families struggling with hard decisions about remote vs in-person learning. High school students return in person to their classrooms in a week for the first time since mid-November; middle schoolers returned last month, while elementary and special education students had been back in-person since early December.
Nearly 300,000 students in grades 9-12 opted to continue to learn remotely.
Porter signs on at a particularly challenging time in the Department of Education s history. The mayor and the city are currently facing a lawsuit that alleged that the school system s policies have contributed to segregation and racism.
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“As a lifelong New Yorker, a product of our City’s public schools, and a career educator, it is the honor of my lifetime to serve as Chancellor,” said Incoming Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter.
By Michael V. Cusenza
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday appointed Meisha Porter a borough native, City public school graduate, and 20-year veteran who has led at every level in the system the next chancellor of New York City public schools, and the first Black woman to serve in the role.
After three years at the helm, Richard Carranza will begin transitioning out of the role of chancellor. Porter will begin as chancellor on March 15.
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) New York City Schools will soon have a new chancellor at the helm.
Current Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced he would be stepping down from the post on Friday during Mayor Bill de Blasio s daily press conference.
The Department of Education, and the mayor, announced Carranza will be replaced by Bronx Executive Superintendent Meisha Porter.
Porter will take over the job starting on March 15.
She is a New York City public school graduate, a 20-year veteran employee, who has led at every level in the system. Porter will be the first Black woman to serve in the role.