NYC schools Chancellor Banks accuses Brooklyn parent leader of violating state laws over Israel-Hamas walkout, could face ban

City schools Chancellor David Banks this week sharply reprimanded the Brooklyn parent council that promoted a citywide student walkout to protest the Israel-Hamas war for “failing to effectively conduct business,” The Post has learned.

Banks accused Community Education Council 14 President Tajh Sutton of violating multiple state laws including one that could get her permanently banned from serving on any citywide board.

“It appears that the Council under your leadership and direction is only selectively representing the district’s parent community, blocking attendance and participation at its meetings on questionable grounds, and not responding to or addressing parent concerns,” Banks charged in a three-page letter to Sutton.

CEC 14 has been blasted for blocking Jewish parents from its meetings and on social media.

Sutton allegedly organized in support of Brooklyn Arbor Elementary School paraprofessional James Parra following backlash over his vocal pro-Palestine views, according to DOE records. In social media posts, Parra called Israel a “racist” and “terrorist” state and defended using the term “Zionist pig.”

Banks said Suttons’ actions were “highly inappropriate,” and have “no connection” to CEC duties.

At CEC 14’s meeting on Thursday – which remained virtual despite orders to comply with state law requiring in-person meetings – Parra went on a rant, calling District 14 Superintendent David Cintron a “spineless coward.”

“And you know what? F–k it. Free Palestine forever and always,” Parra added. “From the river to the sea. F–k it.”

Sutton immediately responded: “We love you, James. You are the best of this district.”

On Wednesday, Sutton also got slapped with a notice that found her guilty of violating Chancellor’s Regulation D-210, which prohibits harassment and discrimination, for her promotion of a pro-Palestine student walkout in November.

Sutton has three days to notify the equity compliance officer if she wishes to participate in “conciliation,” which lets respondents be heard before a final action is taken, according to DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer.

“When we receive D-210 complaints against parent leaders we take those complaints seriously,” Styer said.

The chancellor has the power to suspend or remove members.

Also slapped with a negative D-210 ruling this week was Maud Maron, a member of Community Education Council in District 2, which stretches from Lower Manhattan to the Upper East Side.

The DOE ordered her to “cease engaging in conduct involving derogatory or offensive comments about any New York City Public School student.”

Officials told Maron the violation stemmed from her comments to The Post about an anonymous student editorial widely criticized as antisemitic in Stuyvesant High School’s newspaper, The Spectator.

“The byline should read ‘coward’ instead of ‘anonymous,'” she was quoted as saying about the February piece, adding that the op-ed exhibited “ignorance and Jew hatred.”

The Spectator’s editors later issued corrections to the editorial.

Maron remains the subject of another pending complaint that she made disparaging remarks about the LGBTQ community in a private chat group.

“There is no such thing as trans kids …there is no such thing as transition i.e. changing your sex,” she was quoted as saying in The 74, an education news site. The comments generated outrage.

“I stand by my comments,” Maron said Friday. “I should be able to speak in a private chat or the public square without repercussions from the DOE.”

The moves come on the eve of Banks testifying next month at a Congressional hearing on antisemitism in schools and colleges.