New York Post

‘Grade-fix’ principal’s cu$hy job

Gets new 127G post

- By SUSAN EDELMAN

A Brooklyn principal accused of bringing grade-fixing to new heights has resigned, but was given another six-figure job, city officials said.

Marc Williams, after less than two years as principal of the Secondary School for Journalism in Park Slope, quit amid an investigat­ion of course-credit schemes exposed by The Post in July.

A teacher said Williams turned a blind eye when a student got a passing grade in a course by taking online tests — with help from a classmate.

Williams has been made a “case manager” in the Department of Education’s human resources department, officials said. His new $127,443 salary is less than the $156,131 he made last school year, but “it was not a demotion,” said DOE spokesman Michael Aciman.

As DOE investigat­ors grilled teachers about the credit schemes, the 236-student school was thrown into more turmoil this month.

Interim Acting principal Livingston Hilaire learned — three days before the start of classes — that he had to give up two classrooms for Millennium Brooklyn HS, a high-performing school that shares the John Jay building, causing a massive scheduling headache.

“The DOE intentiona­lly sabotaged our school,” charged Annette Renaud, the former parent associatio­n president and a whistleblo­wer on the grade schemes. “This is class warfare.”

Hilaire angrily walked out, announcing that Angelo Marra, another unassigned principal, would take the helm, but a DOE officials said Hilaire was still in charge and that Marra would assist.

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