Text size: +-Sources tell NY1 that longtime New York City schools insider Carmen Farina will be named the city's schools chancellor by incoming mayor Bill de Blasio.
The announcement is expected to come on Monday.
Farina, a deputy schools chancellor under Chancellor Joel Klein a decade ago, has held positions at almost every level of the city's school system.
Although currently retired, she has been credited with helping to construct most of de Blasio's education policy. Until recently she has said she was happy to informally advise her old friend but was not interested, at age 70, in coming out of retirement to take on the grueling job of schools chancellor.
In her previous tenure at the Department of Education, she was praised as 'hands on, no nonsense' by then-City Councilmember Eva Moscowitz.
Farina is a former teacher at PS 29 in Brooklyn, and a former principal at PS 6 in Manhattan.
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