NYC Schools Chancellor Samuels meets with fire-alarm Bowman for damage control after grilling

It’s a five-alarm fire at the Department of Education.Embattled New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is so desperate to put out the flames of his disastrous Tuesday forum with New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones that he called in the city’s ultimate expert on emergency exits: disgraced, fire-alarm-pulling ex-“Squad” Congressman Jamaal Bowman, a well-placed DOE insider told The Post.Samuels’ latest dumpster fire came Tuesday as he sat down with Hannah-Jones for the School Integration Town Hall at the Washington Irving Campus HS in Manhattan, where he was repeatedly booed by the lefty crowd after he defended screened schools and failing to articulate a plan for school integration, a long-term leftist priority.The sitdown was weeks after the “1619 Project” author published a viral essay detailing how she sacrificed her daughter for ideology by sending her to struggling schools in District 13 in Brooklyn — where Samuels was superintendent from 2019-2022 — even when she could have used her connections to send her to a better school.Samuels’ widely panned performance infuriated City Hall, multiple sources told The Post, and the chancellor quickly went into damage control mode.He apparently turned to Bowman, a known conspiracy theorist who has trafficked in antisemitism, for advice on how to manage the fallout.Also present at the meeting was Samuels’ confidante, NYC Schools Chief of External Affairs Sadye Campoamor, who sources said helped facilitate the forum.“Ironically, Jamaal Bowman was here meeting with Kamar trying to figure out a fix strategy.

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.It’s really bad,” the DOE insider said.Bowman notoriously pulled the fire alarm in the Cannon Office Building in DC an unhinged play to stall a vote to avert a government shutdown in September 2023.He also spread 9/11 conspiracies on his blog, saying the Bin Laden was blamed for the attacks as a pretext to wage war in Afghanistan.

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