Metro

Schools probe says to fire, ban ‘School of No’ principal

The city’s top schools investigator lowered the boom Tuesday on notorious “School of No” principal Marcella Sills – saying she should be fired and banned from working in the Deptartment of Education after lying about her attendance and collecting a paycheck for the no-show work.

The scathing investigation and report from the city’s Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon was spurred by The Post’s exclusive Jan. 12 report that revealed Sills was a “no show’ principal at Far Rockaway’s PS 106, who – when she did come to work – blew buckets of taxpayer dough to redecorate her office and order catered meals, while her students lacked basic supplies and services, including Common Core math and reading books and qualified teachers for special education students.

“It is the recommendation of this office that Marcella Sills’ employment be terminated,” Condon wrote in his 13-page report, adding that his finding have been turned over to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown for further investigation and “whatever action he deems appropriate.”

Condon said in his report that the probe of Sills and her assistant-principal, Tonya West, was sparked by The Post’s reporting.

The investigation found that Sills flat-out lied about her attendance at the school, didn’t keep a timecard – and then tried to get underlings to fudge or produce fake timecards to cover her tracks.

The investigation “has substantiated that Marcella Sills [was] frequently late or absent from work, but received her full salary without any time being deducted,” according to the report.

West, the investigators found, “did not keep records and supplied recently created timecards when asked to produce documentation of her time and attendance.”

West, who had already announced plans to resign before The Post report ran, has left the district. But Condon recommended “appropriate disciplinary action be taken” against her, which could include her being ineligible for future work in city schools.

Sills and West could not immediately be reached for comment.