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Carranza: Revolutionary Or Blinded by Ideology?

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 6/3/19

The day after a lawsuit was filed on behalf of three white female administrators accusing Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and some key aides of “unlawful race and gender discrimination and retaliation” that led to their being demoted and replaced by less-qualified people of color who had bought into his agenda, he responded to those charges with three words: “Absolutely not true.”

“We have truth on our side,” Mr. Carranza told the reporters who came to his May 29 press conference in The Bronx about summer-school meals to ask about a meatier subject: the claim that he and his emissaries were shunting aside Caucasian educators to rid the school system of an excess of “whiteness” in executive positions.

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