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'Blunt Talk' by Carranza Distraction Over Action

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 6/24/19

Mayor de Blasio, dropping back into town June 17 after spending the weekend on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, was well into his weekly segment on “Inside City Hall” when Errol Louis said to him, “A group of City Council Members and the New York Post editorial board all seem—well, they have been calling on you basically to fire your Chancellor. What seems to bother them the most is his blunt talk about change and the diversity initiatives and the desegregation efforts.”

What Mr. Louis called “blunt talk” by Richard Carranza, a group of nine elected officials—seven Democrats, two Republicans, all moderate-to-conservative on the political spectrum—had labeled “divisive” in an open letter to the Mayor that appeared in the previous day’s Post. Referring to comments allegedly made by outside consultants brought in by the Chancellor to implement an “implicit-bias” curriculum to train school staff, the letter went on to state that “putting department staff in a position where they are made to feel uncomfortable because of their ethnicity is reprehensible.”

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