NEW YORK CITY: Mayor-Elect Eric Adams Will Name David Banks As Schools Chancellor

WABC - TV: Mayor-elect Eric Adams expected to name David Banks as the next schools chancellor: Sources

Sources confirm to Eyewitness News that Mayor-elect Eric Adams is expected to name David Banks as the next chancellor of the New York City Department of Education.

Banks is a longtime Adams advisor who shares many of the incoming mayor's education philosophies.

He founded the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice in 1997, which current Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter coincidentally took over years later.

Banks left to establish the first Eagle Academy for Young Men in the Bronx, the city's first all-boys public high school to open in more than three decades.

"It's a real challenge to grow up as a young man in the inner city and so they come to a place where we tell them, we see you," Banks said on an episode of "Here and Now" back in February of 2020.

Today, the Eagle Academy is a network of six schools -- one in each borough and Newark -- and has become a national model.....

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