Exclusive | Daughter of outgoing NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks promoted to district job despite lacking qualifications

Schools Chancellor David Banks may be leaving, but his daughter is moving up the ranks in the city Department of Education, The Post has learned.While Banks, his brother Philip and his wife Sheena Wright have all quit Mayor Adams’ administration amid multiple corruption probes, David’s daughter Aaliyah has landed a coveted district-level post without meeting the posted requirements.

Aaliyah Banks, 35, has a state license to teach students with disabilities in grades 7 through 12, but started this fall in Brooklyn’s District 14 as an ELA (English Language Arts) Implementation Specialist for elementary grades, said a spokesman for the city Department of Education.The job requires “at least eight years of successful teaching experience,” according to a DOE ad for the position.She has five years as a state-licensed teacher.The job posting, which a DOE spokesman provided, also says applicants must have a teaching license in early childhood education, which covers birth to grade 2, or in grades 1-6.

Aaliyah has neither.She was a special-ed teacher in grades 6 to 12 at the Bronx School of Law, Government and Justice, founded by her father.“It’s not surprising that the chancellor’s daughter is benefitting from the Banks family’s second generation of nepotism,” said a teacher informed of the move.“Why would I expect his daughter to meet the minimum requirements?”DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer insisted the younger Banks has eight years of teaching experience, saying she started in 2017 under an alternative NYC certification.

But city and state records show otherwise.She obtained a transitional special-ed teacher certificate in 2019, and her initial certificate in February 2023, according to a state education department registry.City payroll records, posted on Seethroughny.net, list her as a community associate — a non-teaching position –in Fiscal Year 2017, a special-ed substitute in FY 2018 and FY 2019, and a special-ed teacher for five school...