Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced Thursday that David C. Banks, the founder of a network of all-boys public schools, will lead New York City’s million-pupil public school system when Adams assumes office next month.
Appearing with Banks at the Brooklyn elementary school that the 59-year-old Banks attended, Adams lauded his chosen schools chancellor as “a visionary, leader, innovator, who has spent his career fighting on behalf of students.”
Banks is a former teacher and principal who founded the Eagle Academy network of schools in 2004 to educate young Black and Latino boys who he believed were often poorly served by the educational system.
Banks currently runs the foundation
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