P.S. 1: Students Interview Chancellor Banks
Welcome to P.S. Weekly, our new show about NYC public schools featuring original interviews, commentary and analysis from our team of student reporters.
David Banks at Tweed Courthouse Nov. 1. Photo by Penelope Day
“A real leader inspires people, encourages people, doesn’t mandate and tell you, ‘Everybody has to do that.’ Then, people are just following you out of fear. That’s not a good leader to me — certainly not the kind of leader I am.”
By Sabrina DuQuesnay
In his ten months on the job as schools chancellor, David Banks has not been shy about naming the challenges he faces. Steep enrollment declines. Pandemic recovery. Budget cuts. He’s offered harsh critiques of the NYC school system and the bureaucracy that runs it.
On Tuesday, Nov. 1, he sat down with a roundtable of student journalists, including a few Miseducation reporters, to answer questions on topics ranging from school funding to censorship of student newspapers. Hear what he had to say in the first episode of P.S. Weekly.
(Chancellor Banks ran out of time for all of the questions but promised to follow up with written responses to the ones he missed. We’ll post those questions and answers here when we receive them.)
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