We’re glad to hear that Mayor Zohran Mamdani has his minions looking to replace his tainted schools chancellor, Kamar Samuels, but we have little hope the mayor will actually choose anyone good for the job.
The immediate cause for Samuels’ ouster would be The Post’s reporting on how he approved a $180,000 no-bid contract (to provide temporary foreign-language teachers) with a non-DOE-approved vendor when he was a Manhattan district superintendent.
Some efforts are in train to paint these violations as no big deal, with media reports suggesting the city Department of Education’s “cumbersome” and “dysfunctional” procurement process excuses Samuels’ breach of the rules…