Marcella Sills — the hooky-playing, fur-draped, BMW-driving former principal of the infamous “School of No” — is still on the city payroll a year after being charged with fraud and misconduct.
The Department of Education yanked Sills from PS 106 in Far Rockaway in February 2014, yet she draws her $128,000 annual salary and racks up pension credit. Her administrative trial has dragged on since last fall. The DOE won’t say what, if anything, Sills does.
Sills’ removal came after The Post exposed her frequent no-shows, chronic lateness and nine years of mismanagement at PS 106, dubbed the “School of No” because it lacked basics like books for the Common Core curriculum, or gym and art classes. Kids were warehoused in the auditorium and shown movies, and kindergarten classes took place in old trailers reeking of urine.
Despite this, Sills threw ritzy graduation galas, requiring low-income families to pay $160 a kid for the catering hall and buy or rent fancy dresses and tuxedos.
The good news is that 223 current students in the school now have lots of books, plus iPads. Movies are out — kids get some gym and art. All students have classrooms in the main building.
The prom is history.
“Thank God for that — they’re actually learning,” said Emma Mickens, whose daughter, Nevaeh, 5, is in kindergarten at the failing school. “It still needs more, but it’s coming along.”
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