Schools Superintendent Melissa Aviles-Ramos has promoted 14 educators to new positions in the city's Department of Education, the Post reported.
Aviles-Ramos announced the changes in a memo to DOE colleagues Thursday, four months after replacing David Banks, who tacitly stepped down after the FBI seized his cellphone in a corruption probe. .
In a major move, Aviles-Ramos appointed Mia Teresa Pate as DOE's chief academic officer, making her role permanent, replacing Caroline Quintana, who was ousted last year in an overhaul.
Aviles-Ramos said Pate will oversee the DOE's “educational priorities,” including major changes to the reading and math curriculum laid out by Banks.
Pate, a former interim director of teaching and learning, has come under scrutiny for running a lucrative side business in which he charged up to $289.95 per person to attend workshops for executive candidates. Targeted.
It is unclear whether the salary will increase with the promotion. Many of the appointees already have top salaries, with Pate receiving $278,040 in 2023-2024.
Aviles-Ramos also said that as part of the Department of Energy's personnel changes, the communications, intergovernmental affairs, policy and advocacy teams will report directly to her.
The memo said Nathaniel Steyer, a former press secretary in the Banks administration who once defended the class map that wiped out Israel, will become executive director of policy communications and “manage key policy messages.” There is. His income for the last fiscal year was $185,436.
“It's a propaganda bureau,” quipped David Bloomfield, a professor at Brooklyn College and the Center for Graduate Education at the City University of New York.
He said, “The new prime minister has the right to reorganize the organization according to his own management style,'' but he also said that some of the new executive positions overlap, saying, “Using titles to compete is not a good idea. “It's just a way to inflate salaries.”
Aviles-Ramos wrote that the changes will “promote colleagues” already working at the Department of Energy.
Among her promotions, the Prime Minister named Catherine Jedrlinic as senior executive director for policy and advocacy and David Mantel as her subordinate executive director.
Xavier Edwards has been named senior executive director of strategy to “implement the strategic plan and track progress on agency-wide initiatives.”
In Operations and Finance, Michael Cheatham currently serves as senior advisor to Chief Financial Officer Selitta Scott.
In early childhood education, Sonya Fuchs will be responsible for development and family engagement.
