NYC principal whos also a rapper being paid nearly $200K to run a school that doesnt exist

This is Ludacris.An NYC educrat who moonlights as a rapper is raking in an eye-watering $192,374 principal’s salary for not running a school, The Post has learned.Caleb Haraguchi-Combs was a vice principal in BORO when he was handpicked in January to become “project director” of the proposed Next Generation Technology High School.The promotion came with a $50,000 raise to principal-level compensation.A project director of a planned school usually becomes the new school’s principal.But Haraguchi-Combs’ new school — a proposed FiDi institution focusing on artificial intelligence and computer tech — was never approved or opened.Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels torpedoed the proposal in April after woke backlash over its merit-based admissions model and general fear of AI in schools.Yet the windfall continued for Haraguchi-Combs, 33.In his previous role as assistant principal at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics in East Harlem, he made $141,960 a year, according to public records.A Manhattan Center official confirmed that Haraguchi-Combs is no longer at the school.When The Post confronted the educator this week outside his shimmering Downtown Brooklyn high-rise, Haraguchi-Combs refused to say where he worked.“You came to my house? Outrageous,” he barked at a reporter.The DOE said that Haraguchi-Combs is currently “developing new proposals and supporting in-progress proposals,” a typical role for project directors whose schools don’t exist.However, a DOE source strongly refuted that claim.“Unless a principal has tenure, they get bumped back to AP if their schools don’t open,” the source said.

Officials “never should have named a principal before the school was approved.”Haraguchi-Combs would have been unable to apply for tenure as a principal since he never wound up serving in the role.DOE insiders are fuming over the waste of taxpayer money — and questioned why Haraguchi-Combs simply couldn’t be sent to work at another ...