New York principal abruptly fired after allegations of abuse and vowed 'no more white principals'

The superintendent of Staten Island Public Schools was abruptly removed from her post amid repeated allegations of insulting staff and vowing “no more white principals,” The Post has learned.

Marion Wilson, who led schools in District 31 for three and a half years, was swept from her office Thursday and ordered to report to the Department of Education's Tweed headquarters in Manhattan.

Wilson “will move to a central team,” Danika Rux, associate chancellor for school leadership, said in an internal announcement Monday, without providing an explanation for the quick and surprising ouster.

Sources said she will keep her $230,000 salary and serve as a “facilitator” in the Leaders in Education Apprenticeship Program (LEAP), which prepares teachers for school principal positions with a focus on racial justice.

Energy Department officials declined to explain Wilson's firing, but a school insider said she was caught on tape denouncing district employees.

“Apparently she was demeaning her own directors and staff on a Zoom or Teams call and didn’t realize she was unmuted,” the insider said.

Wilson is also dogged by allegations that she made racially offensive comments.

Last year, the city schools special commissioner was tasked with investigating widely circulated screenshots of texts purportedly written by Wilson.

“No more white principals under my watch!” said one text.

“I have to clean up this island,” reads another.

“White people need to realize that this is no longer the boys’ club. A strong black woman is running this bitch now and they can either get in or get out.”

Wilson filed a police report, claiming she received threats based on “false accusations” that she wrote the texts.

The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force said it would investigate and provided Wilson with a police escort for a period of time. “The investigation is ongoing,” an NYPD spokesman said Friday.

The SCI closed its case several months later after the texts came to light, saying investigators had not been able to identify who wrote them, a spokesman told The Post.

Footage has since surfaced allegedly showing Wilson making racially motivated comments toward black parents, according to a complainant who sent audio clips to The Post.

“I said no more white principals. I meant it,” a woman the complainant identified as Wilson says in one recording. In another case she says: “We black people have to stick together. Nobody helps us.”

The SCI says it did not investigate the records but forwarded them to the DOE's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity.

“The cases involving these allegations have not been substantiated,” said DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer.

Wilson did not respond to a request for comment about the recordings.

Meanwhile, a white principal, Heather Jansen, claims in a pending discrimination lawsuit against the DOE that Wilson wrongfully fired her as principal of PS 46 in June 2023.

“She probably didn't know what was happening to her when they pulled out her white bottom,” Wilson allegedly wrote, according to a screenshot Jansen submitted as evidence. WHERE IS THE SCREENSHOT?

In January, Jansen told the judge she had filed a police report alleging she was threatened by a man who showed up at her home in Monroe Township, New Jersey, warning: “If you know what “If it’s good for you, drop the case against her.” Marion.”

Monroe Township investigators have not identified a suspect, a spokesman said this week.

Wilson leaves the Staten Island community with mixed feelings about her tenure.

“No one saw this coming. Nobody wanted it,” said Liz Cianfrone, a volunteer family advocate who advocates for special needs students and their parents.

Cianfrone praised Wilson as a “role model, inspiration and true advocate for children,” saying she helped children and addressed issues that other district officials had ignored.

Staten Island state Rep. Michael Reilly praised Wilson as an “ally to our public schools and an advocate for students, parents and teachers.”

But Wilson made such a concerted effort to fill vacancies with black administrators, some principals said, that it prompted other candidates to leave the district.

“Race was the most important criterion when selecting the professionals on their team,” said one.