{"id":481355,"date":"2025-12-31T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481355\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:08:11","slug":"zohran-mamdani-taps-kamar-samuels-as-next-nyc-schools-chancellor-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481355\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani taps Kamar Samuels as next NYC schools chancellor: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to name a Manhattan superintendent as his next schools chancellor, The Post has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Kamar Samuels, who currently works in Manhattan\u2019s District 3, will take over the largest school system in the country with more than 900,000 students and 135,000 employees come Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.70996094;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38058894\" width=\"419\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/exits-entrances-one-man-time-114930610.jpg\" alt=\"District Superintendent Kamar Samuels smiling and wearing a black hoodie with &quot;REIMAGINED FOR ALL D13&quot; logo.\" class=\"wp-image-38058894\"  \/>Manhattan superintendent Kamar Samuels is set to be named by Zohran Mamdani as his next schools chancellor. District3Supt\/ X<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani\u2019s long-awaited schools chancellor pick\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/personality\/2025\/12\/mamdani-name-kamar-samuels-schools-chancellor\/410421\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was first reported<\/a>\u00a0by City and State.<\/p>\n<p>The horse-race for the next top official in the city\u2019s school system came down to Samuels and the current chancellor, Melissa Aviles-Ramos, who hasn\u2019t been shy about her willingness to stay on the job.<\/p>\n<p>But neither were the first pick for the job.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38058892\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/new-york-city-mayor-elect-117794970_15ac22.jpg\" alt=\"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani smiling at a press conference.\" class=\"wp-image-38058892\"  \/>Mamdani is set to be sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Instead, former Mayor Bill de Blasio schools leader Meisha Porter had been expected to land the gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was this close,\u201d one insider said, adding, \u201c[Porter] was not happy with Mamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After she fell out of favor, the transition had to look at the rest of the shortlist, dragging out the selection until the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was not a simple process,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to name a Manhattan superintendent as his next schools chancellor, The Post has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,29941,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-481355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-schools-chancellor","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115811746208081837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}