Richard Carranza leaves in the middle of a crisis — and NYC is better off without himhttps://nypost.com/2021/02/26/richard-carranza-leaves-in-the-middle-of-a-crisis-and-nyc-is-better-off-without-him/We’d say that Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s surprise resignation leaves the city in the lurch, leaving a leadership vacuum amidst a pandemic that still has far too many schools closed — except that New York is better off without his signature blend of incompetence and toxicity.
... All too often, race seemed to be not merely his obsession, but his only concern. (Well, that and dumping on the charter schools that actually deliver for the minority kids he claims to care about.)
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Catholic, charter and private schools all figured out how to re-open and/or get real value out of remote learning. But not the regular system Carranza “leads.†(Indeed, top charters such as Success Academy and KIPP couldn’t reopen because the DOE made it impossible.)
His obsession with lowering standards and racially re-engineering schools that work helped no one, certainly not the black and Hispanic kids he claimed to champion: Their neighborhood schools remain largely abysmal.
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Carranza will be remembered for demonizing liberals (both parents and DOE professionals) as racists, for pitting blacks and Hispanics against whites and Asians, and for failing completely when a real crisis hit.
Carranza has been an abscess in NYC schools for years.
