#DOE adviser tasked with reopening schools quits days before classes start

A senior Department of Education adviser tasked with reopening city schools is leaving her post just days before classes are slated to begin.

Alison Hirsh, a former staffer with the de Blasio administration, announced her departure on Twitter Friday afternoon.

“There are no easy answers to schooling in the midst of a pandemic, but the staff at DOE has wrestled with each of the questions with integrity and fortitude, under inordinate pressure,” she wrote.

Sources told the Post that Hirsh will now work with former City Hall counsel Maya Wiley’s in exploring a mayoral run.

Hirsh parted ways with de Blasio in June after concluding that he had wrongfully sided with the NYPD during the city’s George Floyd protests and riots, according to Politico.

The Post reported last week that Hirsh never set foot inside DOE headquarters after joining the department to assist Chancellor Richard Carranza in reopening the nation’s largest system amid the coronavirus crisis.

She retained her $230,000 salary after joining the agency.

“He [Carranza] brought her on to be the senior adviser on school reopening even though she has no history of working with schools,” a source said. “The most senior person, the point person, refuses to come into Tweed [Courthouse, DOE HQ].”

The DOE has been beset with a string of high profile departures during the COVID-19 upheaval.

Most recently, Chief Operating Officer Ursulina Ramirez left to take a job at a nonprofit organization after six year with the DOE.