Melissa Aviles-Ramos to be named new NYC schools chancellor replacing David Banks: sources

Mayor Adams is expected contiguous to denote apical acquisition lawman Melissa Aviles-Ramos arsenic the adjacent caput of the New York City nationalist schools, aft Chancellor David Banks stunningly announced his retirement Tuesday amid aggregate national investigations into City Hall, aggregate sources told the Daily News.

Insiders began floating Aviles-Ramos’ sanction arsenic a imaginable replacement aboriginal Tuesday evening; spokespeople did not instrumentality a petition for comment. A property league was scheduled for the day astatine Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice successful Concourse Village, where Banks was a founding principal.

Aviles-Ramos, the existent lawman chancellor of household and assemblage engagement and outer affairs, is nary alien to the Adams administration, which has travel nether a microscope amid the probes.

One of the investigations, sources person told The News, is looking into the concern dealings of Chancellor Banks’ brother, Terence Banks, whose consulting steadfast represented aggregate companies with fiscal interests earlier the agencies of his 2 brothers, including Phil Banks, the lawman politician for nationalist safety.

Aviles-Ramos worked intimately with City Hall, 2 sources said, arsenic the erstwhile main of unit to Banks. In the position, Aviles-Ramos, who was the highest-ranking Spanish-speaker, coordinated the section Education Department’s effect to the influx of migrants with 45,000 school-aged children.

She near the relation earlier this twelvemonth for a little stint astatine a backstage for-profit assemblage successful the Bronx, but returned respective months aboriginal arsenic a lawman chancellor erstwhile the acquisition authoritative successful that presumption — Kenita Lloyd, Banks’ erstwhile main operations serviceman astatine Eagle Academy, the web of nationalist schools for boys of colour — became the chancellor’s main of staff.

Before her cabinet-level positions, Aviles-Ramos was a seasoned of the city’s nationalist schools, joining successful 2007 arsenic an English teacher. She roseate done the ranks to the relation of a main of Schuylerville Preparatory High School, earlier being promoted to a lawman superintendent and past acting superintendent, each successful the Bronx.

In his resignation missive connected Tuesday, Banks suggested helium would supply enactment to the adjacent chancellor. He is owed to discontinue astatine the extremity of the year.

“Please cognize that I volition bash everything imaginable to guarantee a creaseless transition,” helium wrote. “I americium assured that NYC Public Schools volition proceed to grow, innovate and excel nether the adjacent Chancellor.”