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NY Post
New York Post
22 Apr 2023


NextImg:List of  ‘bad’ NYC principals includes serial hugger, sexy dresser and ‘Lucifer’s sister’

These school leaders should be sent to the principal’s office.

A review site airs the inside scoop on “Administrators in Need of Improvement,” most of whom are still employed in city schools.

Created by the UFT Solidarity teachers’ union group, the list is based on teacher and staffer recommendations and includes a Brooklyn principal accused of giving out unwanted hugs, another who dressed in tight clothing and one referred to as “Lucifer’s sister.”

The number of administrators on the list has grown to 177.

Among those in the rogue’s gallery are Claire Lowenstein, who left PS 133 in Manhattan in November after years of staff and parent complaints, and Debra Mastriano, who heads PS 166 on the Upper West Side, and who has been accused of prohibiting kids’ snacks and of making racist comments. She is currently under investigation.

The list allows for teachers and staffers to enter complaints, which are mostly anonymous.

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Assistant Principal Jessica Fitzpatrick of PS 37R on Staten Island was described as a “wicked leader.”
Stamatina “Tina” Hatzimichalis
Principal Stamatina “Tina” Hatzimichalis of PS 131 in Borough Park is said to make staff miserable.
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Sara Medina
The UFT Solidarity group’s list of lacking administrators includes Sara Medina, the principal of PS 85 The Great Expectations School in Fordham Heights.
Sheldon Dempsey
Sheldon Dempsey, principal of JHS 220 in Sunset Park, denies allegations that he gave unwanted hugs to female staffers.
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Carla Ling, the head of PS/MS 120 in the Bronx, has amassed 37 comments, the most of any principal. The Post previously reported that the educator was so ill-mannered even her boss was offended.

Other educators allegedly not making the grade include:

The UFT group said principals make the list “when a teacher describes the principal’s behavior as immoral, criminal, discriminatory, unethical, or abusive.”

“Behavior that falls into any of those categories should not be exhibited by anyone, and certainly not by an individual running a school,” UFT Solidarity said.

It also asks anyone who thinks they have made the list in error to email the group.

Dempster denied the allegations of inappropriate hugging and said the complaints about him came from a disgruntled former dean and her friends.

“She thought by putting stuff up there she’d get me fired,” he said.

Fitzpatrick declined to comment.

Noboa-Roach, Medina and Hatzimichalis did not return requests for comment, nor did the principal’s union and the DOE.