Brooklyn families and educators are demanding the reinstatement of a popular school superintendent after Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos inexplicably yanked him in a move critics slam as cronyism.
Aviles-Ramos ousted Brendan Mims, the District 16 superintendent appointed by her predecessor David Banks, on Monday, relegating him to the city Department of Education office that holds student suspension hearings, insiders say.
It was the first major personnel change by Aviles-Ramos since she started as chancellor Jan. 1.
“We were all blindsided,” Shalonda Vasquez, a Bedford-Stuyvesant business owner and mom of twins, told The Post. “It’s unfair and it doesn’t make sense.”…