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After just one year on the job, the schools chancellor in Washington, D.C., Antwan Wilson, resigned from his post Tuesday amid a brewing scandal involving his daughter鈥檚 school transfer. His resignation that Wilson had skirted a district school lottery system so his daughter could transfer to a sought-after high school, skipping over hundreds of other families.

The district policy requires students to navigate an admissions lottery if they want to apply to a school outside their residential boundary. But Wilson and his wife had approached Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles about problems their daughter was having at school. Niles, , ultimately helped Wilson bypass the lottery so his daughter could transfer from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts to Woodrow Wilson High School, a popular school with a waiting list.

The story comes with a smidge of irony: Just last year, Wilson to prevent public officials from bypassing the lottery to secure highly sought school placements for their children. Wilson鈥檚 predecessors, Kaya Henderson and Michelle Rhee, the children of local and federal officials to attend choice schools outside the lottery.

As recently as Tuesday morning, Wilson to step down by seven members of the 13-member D.C. Council, though he acknowledged in an interview with The Washington Post that he had 鈥渇ailed miserably.鈥�

鈥淚t wasn鈥檛 a mistake out of anything other than trying to ensure that my daughter鈥檚 well-being was taken care of,鈥� he said.

The news follows a separate D.C. scandal over district graduation policies. In January, a D.C. Office of the State Superintendent investigation found that more than a third of students who received their diplomas last year should not have crossed the graduation stage. In that scandal, the origins of which predate Wilson鈥檚 tenure, investigators found a pattern in which high school administrators throughout the district rarely followed district policies and engaged in a culture where educators felt pressure to pass and graduate students regardless of merit. The FBI, the U.S. Department of Education Inspector General鈥檚 Office, and the D.C. Inspector General鈥檚 Office the graduation scandal, though the scope of their inquiry remains unclear.

The city named Amanda Alexander, chief of elementary schools, as the district鈥檚 interim chancellor.

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