NYC DOE hires husband of deputy chancellor in secret promotion deal
The husband of schools Chancellor David Banks’ newly appointed $265,000-a-year deputy chancellor of leadership scored a high-paying job in the city Department of Education as part of a secret deal to ensure his wife’s promotion, insiders told The Post
Shawn Rux, the husband of Danika Rux, landed a gig as executive director of the DOE’s Office of School Design and Charter Partnerships starting on September 5, replacing the retiring Daniella Phillips, whose salary was $195,000 last year, sources said.
“It’s the ‘friends and family’ program,” a DOE staffer said sarcastically.
Danika Rux was a DOE superintendent when her husband founded an educational consulting firm, Ruxway Inc., in March 2020. The firm has since collected $253,450 in DOE payments, records show.
Under city Conflicts of Interest Board rules, any public servant whose spouse owns a company that does business with the city must obtain an order granting permission to retain a financial interest in it.
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