New York City’s Department of Education has been paying a rapper more than $192,000 a year to lead a high school that does not exist.
Caleb Haraguchi-Combs, 33, was chosen earlier this year as project director for Next Generation Technology High School, a role that typically means serving as the school’s principal. The campus was supposed to focus on artificial intelligence and computer technology.
But in April, Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels cut the proposal. According to the Post, the plan fell victim to “woke backlash over its merit-based admissions model and general fear of AI in schools.”
Haraguchi-Combs, who had earned more than $140,000 a year as an assistant principal at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, kept the higher salary anyway. He no longer works at the Manhattan Center. He is also credited with a song titled “War Propaganda” on Apple Music.
