NYC Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos is engaged “in a loving relationship” with the son of a powerful state lawmaker whose support she was counting on to help keep her job under the Mamdani administration, The Post has learned.

Aviles-Ramos’ romance with Julian Sepulveda, son of Bronx state Sen. Luis Sepulveda, blossomed before she filed a petition to divorce her husband, multiple sources say.

But now that relationship prevents Sen. Sepulveda — an ally of the chancellor — from openly lobbying Mamdani on her behalf, his spokesman acknowledged.

Aviles-Ramos, 43, began dating Julian Sepulveda, 33, long before she and ex-husband Samuel Ramos filed for divorce in early 2023, but the married couple considered themselves separated, his lawyer said.

Before her marriage ended, Julian Sep

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