{"id":314238,"date":"2026-08-05T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314238\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:44:10","slug":"ryan-open-to-intervention-from-state-for-bps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314238\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan open to intervention from state for BPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan says he is open to any intervention by New York state in the Buffalo Public School District.<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Mayor sidestepped a question regarding allegations facing board member Muki Hawkins, asking if he should resign after a second set of <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/08\/04\/buffalo-boe-member-accused-of-sexual-harassment-in-new-claim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexual harassment claims<\/a> were levied against the current school board member Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A notice of claim, which is a precursor to a lawsuit, accuses Hawkins of an &#8220;unlawful and continuing course of sexual harassment, a sexually hostile work environment, quid pro quo sexual harassment, sex-based discrimination, and retaliation&#8221; directed at Arlene Adams, the district&#8217;s project administrator overseeing the federal grant program, Project Prevent. The Buffalo Public School District is also named in the suit for their &#8220;knowing failure to prevent, investigate and remediate that conduct and its failure to protect&#8221; Adams.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan says he is encouraged that State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa is already informally becoming more involved with Buffalo schools, but there remains too much noise around the board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They should be putting their efforts on kids being ready to be in the seat when the bell rings on opening day, and right now all I see out of the school board is distraction, distraction distraction,&#8221; Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of school for Buffalo Public Schools is Sept. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan says he is open to any intervention by New York state in the Buffalo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113,67,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,380],"class_list":["post-314238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buffalo","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314238","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=314238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}