{"id":138867,"date":"2026-02-19T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138867\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:24:05","slug":"top-nyc-education-dept-official-christina-melendez-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138867\/","title":{"rendered":"Top NYC Education Dept. official Christina Mel\u00e9ndez to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITYWIDE \u2014 CHRISTINA MEL\u00c9NDEZ, the New York City Education Department\u2019s deputy chancellor of Family, Community and Student Empowerment, has announced she will  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2026\/02\/18\/nyc-deputy-chancellor-resignation-cristina-melendez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">step down<\/a> Feb. 27, Chalkbeat reported Thursday. City officials have not yet announced who will fill the position, and Mel\u00e9ndez did not comment on her next move.<\/p>\n<p>One of Mel\u00e9ndez\u2019 responsibilities in a previous role, as executive director of the NYC Public School\u2019s Office of Family and Community Empowerment, involved overseeing the Community Education Council elections, which, according to Chalkbeat, has had \u201cnotoriously low\u201d turnout, with only 2% of public school families participating in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITYWIDE \u2014 CHRISTINA MEL\u00c9NDEZ, the New York City Education Department\u2019s deputy chancellor of Family, Community and Student Empowerment,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3302,58768,9,24,58769,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-138867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-breaking","tag-christina-melendez","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-department-of-education-nyc-doe","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}