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Porter will lead the Bronx Community Foundation as the Adams administration takes over.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter started her first day on the job in Red Hook, Brooklyn at PS 15, The Patrick Day School. Fifth-grade students Annabri McCloud and Maliyah Bell served as "docents" and tour guides for the new chancellor. Strung across the wall was a banner with Chancellor Porter's name written in glittery red letters, reading "Welcome Chancellor Porter, dream it, believe it, achieve it." Chancellor Porter thanked the employees at the school for their work during the pandemic. The fifth-grade tour guides presented Porter with two gifts to ma...

As Porter begins her new position, the city looks to move forward from a pandemic that ravaged so many lives and left tens of thousands of families struggling with hard decisions about remote vs in-person learning. High school students return in person to their classrooms in a week for the first time since mid-November; middle schoolers returned last month, while elementary and special education students had been back in-person since early December. Nearly 300,000 students in grades 9-12 opted to continue to learn remotely. Porter signs on at a particularly challenging time in the Department...

"...I find myself hoping that I have had an impact on the lives of students, teachers, administrators and their communities.”

Porter, a former teacher, principal, and superintendent in the Bronx, will make history as New York City’s first Black woman chancellor.