A lawyer for news organizations sent the judge a letter asking his reasons for sealing Mangione’s hearing.
He was ignored by the judge and rebuffed by his clerk, who said: “We don’t read emails or letters at night. We go home.” She then hung up on him.
https://t.co/jvjFaeBjAs
@Brendan65218612@DOEChancellor The city Department of Investigation appoints the SCI commissioner, but SCI staff is on the DOE payroll. The City Council can excercise oversight over SCI.
The Special Commissioner of Investigation for NYC schools won't say whether @DOEChancellor has yet admitted hiring a non-DOE vendor and permitting bill-splitting to avoid oversight while he was a Manhattan superintendent-- instead of letting his former deputy take all the blame. Insiders say he must "self-report."
https://t.co/E2wOk9v93R
This reporter asked NYC schools chancellor Kamar Samuels whether he’s informed Mayor Mamdani about his involvement in alleged contract and procurement violations during his previous post as Upper Manhattan’s District 3 superintendent.
No answer yet.
https://t.co/Z0Y3tmfdfv
Confirmed: @NYCMayor Mamdani has trimmed the DOE’s bureaucratic bloat – at least by snipping the top salary. He is paying schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels $363,000, considerably less than the $428,280 ex-chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos got under then-Mayor Eric Adams.
https://t.co/IzWjRm2eDR
Some NYC teachers whose class sizes remain exempt from the new limits because of a staff shortage or lack of space may get extra pay up to $8,500 in the 2026-27 school year and $9,500 in 2027-28, the DOE and @UFT agreed.
"Would we rather see every class fully compliant right now? Of course," @UFT president Mike Mulgrew told members.
If the city issues exemptions from the class-size law because a building doesn’t have enough space to shrink classes or can’t hire enough staff, teachers will be eligible for additional pay.
Neither the DOE nor the union provided a copy of the agreement or confirmed how much money teachers could earn, @ChalkbeatNY reports.
Zohran Mamdani is set to win relief from a class size mandate he championed. A separate union deal could provide extra pay when classes exceed legal limits. https://t.co/Zm2ISjIN7s
If @DOEChancellor Kamar Samuels makes $363K, that's A LOT LESS than his predecessor, Melissa Aviles-Ramos, whose last salary was $428,280, according to NYC payroll records posted here:
https://t.co/EzesUG2ZWr
"Title: Chancellor
Rate of Pay: $428,280
Pay Year: 2025
Pay: per Annum
Branch/Major Category: New York City."
In 2024, @deirdre_bardolf and I reported that Aviles-Ramos received a raise after her promotion to $414,799-a-year.
https://t.co/9L8ykOfy9f
NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels makes $363K -- tho City Hall has not publicly disclosed Samuels’ pay, and declined multiple requests by The Post to confirm his salary — a move good government groups found baffling. https://t.co/Gnuc7EufyK
NEW: Kamar Samuels got a free pass from city school investigators who blasted his former deputy superintendent for violating DOE procurement rules — but failed to reveal that Samuels engaged in the same alleged misconduct.
A flawed report by @NYC_SCI, the agency charged with exposing fraud and corruption in city schools, left Samuels untainted in the months before @NYCMayor appointed him chancellor.
https://t.co/E2wOk9v93R
This reporter asked NYC schools chancellor Kamar Samuels whether he’s informed Mayor Mamdani about his involvement in alleged contract and procurement violations during his previous post as Upper Manhattan’s District 3 superintendent.
No answer yet.
https://t.co/Z0Y3tmfdfv
NEW: Kamar Samuels got a free pass from city school investigators who blasted his former deputy superintendent for violating DOE procurement rules — but failed to reveal that Samuels engaged in the same alleged misconduct.
A flawed report by @NYC_SCI, the agency charged with exposing fraud and corruption in city schools, left Samuels untainted in the months before @NYCMayor appointed him chancellor.
https://t.co/E2wOk9v93R
Rewarded: The @nyc_sci urged the DOE to fire Mariela Graham for procurement violations and bar her from future employment while she took the fall for Kamar Samuels. The DOE suspended Graham for 2 weeks, and Samuels has promoted her to "senior director of strategy."
A June 11, 2025 report by @nyc_sci pummels Upper Manhattan deputy superintendent Mariela Graham for signing an "improper" $180K contract with a non-DOE vendor in 2024. The investigative agency claims it didn't know that her boss, then-superintendent Kamar Samuels, signed a similar $180K contract in 2023.
https://t.co/E2wOk9v93R