Success Academy Chairman Daniel Loeb, who has previously made racially-charged criticisms of state Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and the United Federation of Teachers, is in hot water again over emails in which he lectured Deputy Mayor Richard Buery—who is African-American—on the obstacles black students face in schools.
Over a series of emails, Mr. Loeb accused Mr. Buery, along with the de Blasio administration, of not doing enough to help black students. The Success Academy charter network has a student body that is 93 percent black and Hispanic.
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