Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and the Department of Education have come under fire for implicit bias trainings provided by companies contracted with the agency that four administrators planning to sue the city claimed were fostering a sense of “toxic whiteness.”
Mr. Carranza has focused on better integrating the public-school system, which is 70 percent black and Hispanic, and the system’s 1,800 schools often have widely-varying student achievement levels. But he has received criticism for his approaches to tackling inequity, particularly the plan to end the admissions test for the specialized high schools, where students are predominantly Asian and white.
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