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NYC Public Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza Steps Down

NYC Public Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza Steps Down

 In a surprise announcement on Friday, Department of Education Chancellor Richard Carranza gave his two-weeks’ notice after overseeing the education of more than a million student for three years. 

    On March 15, Bronx Executive Superintendent Meisha Ross Porter with take over the position, the Department of Education said.

   Porter, who was born in South Jamaica, Queens, will become the city’s first African-American woman to head the nation’s largest school district, and said her top priority was to “remove the barriers” of segregation in every borough.

   Porter also plans to focus on reopening high schools and ensure that all schools reopen in September.

   In explaining his departure with only 10 months left of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s administration, the former chancellor said his decision was not political, but personal.

   After tragically “losing 11 family and close childhood friends this pandemic,” he is “a New Yorker who quite frankly needs to take time to grieve,” Carranza, who is 54, said on Friday at a press briefing of the mayor.

   In looking back on his tenure, Carranza, who previously served as the superintendent of schools in Houston and San Francisco, said, “In the largest school system in America, we made true progress in dismantling structures and policies that are products of decades of entrenched racism."

 Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office


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