With nearly three weeks until a new mayor takes office, questions remain about who will lead the nation's largest public school district.

Selecting a chancellor to head the New York City Public Schools will be Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's first big test. It's a topic he has not been vocal about during his transition into City Hall, but advocacy groups and parents are pushing him to retain current Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos.

"For decades, the Chancellor has shown unwavering commitment to New York City’s children. Her knowledge of our school system inside and out, past and present is unmatched. At a time when students and families face unprecedented challenges and require consistent, trusted leadership, removing her would create unnecessary disruption and weaken the progress underway," the Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council wrote in a letter addressed to the mayor-elect, Gov. Kathy Hochul and other elected leaders.

The Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council is a body that represents Presidents' Councils across 32 community school districts and five borough high school councils, including District 75.

The letter goes on to say that the NYCPS has seen measurable progress under Alives-Ramos' leadership with the highest ELA and math proficiency rates since 2012.

"These gains are tied to sustained, systemwide priorities NYC Reads, NYC Solves and Student Pathways that have been expanded to reach tens of thousands more students. Keeping the Chancellor keeps these initiatives on track," the letter continued.

News 12 reached out to the Department of Education and it referred News 12 to a recent CBS New York interview with Alives-Ramos.

"At this time, I do not know what is going to happen after Jan. 1," she said, "Mayor-elect Mamdani did say at a presser once that he is open to considering commissioners, sitting commissioners, if they'd done good work, and my name was mentioned."

Several names have been tossed in the ring, including Alvies-Ramos, as possible candidates to lead NYCPS, but Mamdani and his team have remained tight lipped on confirming who they are considering. News 12 reached out to his transition team on the process, but they have not replied.

The last three administrations have selected their own chancellors, but the school district is currently under mayoral control, something Mamdani said he wants to eliminate when he takes office.