Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to name a Manhattan superintendent who worked to dismantle Gifted & Talented programs as his next schools chancellor, The Post has confirmed.
Kamar Samuels, a longtime educator who currently works in Manhattan’s 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.
During his six-year stint as superintendent, Samuels promoted racial diversity in the classroom via school mergers in the district that covers parts of Harlem, the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights, according to Chalkbeat.
He also focused on chipping away at the controversial Gifted & Talented program, which some parents claimed is racially biased. …