{"id":110,"date":"2023-11-15T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=110"},"modified":"2024-10-22T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:07:26","slug":"david-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/david-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"David Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
David Banks was born in January 1962, and eleven months later, his brother, Philip<\/a>, was born. While Philip followed in their father’s footsteps and worked his way up the NYPD and into a role as deputy mayor (despite being named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal criminal complaint<\/a>), David got a law degree and worked at the City’s Law Department, followed by a stint at the state Attorney General’s office, before becoming a public school teacher in Crown Heights. He then became a CEO of a foundation that has opened a number of public schools for boys, and now, he’s Eric Adams’s head of the Department of Education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Adams and David have reportedly known each other for three decades<\/a>. Unlike the appointment of his brother as deputy mayor for public safety, Adams tapping David to lead the City’s schools wasn’t controversial\u2014at least on paper. Banks had attended New York City public schools himself, and through his time at the Eagle Academy, whose foundation he led, was well-versed in the intricacies of the city\u2019s school system. At the time, it was reeling from an exodus of students during the COVID-19 pandemic, when 50,000 students, representing 4.5 percent of the total student population, left City schools. But the appointment of two brothers to such high-level positions in the administration did lead some to question where exactly the power lay in New York City<\/a>\u2014was it with the mayor, or with this unelected pair and their coterie? Should we actually be referring to this era as the Banks administration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I\u2019ve heard that term being used,\u201d David Banks told New York Magazine’s Errol Louis<\/a>. \u201cBut listen, we all work very closely together, and we\u2019re all doing the best that we can on behalf of New York. We love New York, just like you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n