Mamdani’s Schools Chief Begins Shaping Agenda Around Rigor and Equity

In his first week on the job, Kamar H. Samuels started to sketch out his priorities for leading America’s largest school system.Kamar H. Samuels, the new schools chancellor in New York City, visited several schools during his first week, including Public School 194 in the Bronx, where he once taught sixth-grade math.