Three white female administrators at the Department of Education filed a $90-million lawsuit in State Supreme Court May 28 claiming that under the leadership of Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, they were targeted for demotions because of their race.
Mr. Carranza has been scrutinized for his approaches to better integrate the public-school system, which is 70 percent black and Hispanic. He has recently come under fire for implicit bias trainings provided to administrators by companies contracted with the agency, which some claimed fostered a sense of “toxic whiteness.”
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