Three former high-ranking administrators have sued Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, claiming they were demoted because they’re white. It’s an explosive charge, and one that must be proved — but the allegations reflect, at minimum, the intensifying racial tensions since Carranza took charge of the nation’s largest school system 13 months ago.
The chancellor threw down the race gauntlet from Day One. He picked fights with white parents, promised to achieve racial balance in the city’s selective high schools and commissioned a $23 million “implicit-bias” social-conditioning regimen that lies at the heart of the former administrators’ $80 million lawsuit.
The program, first reported by The Post, assumes that students in majority-minority schools struggle because the system’s white-majority teachers and staff, consciously or otherwise, bring racist attitudes to work with them — and that this, rather than bad teaching, administrative inertia and non-classroom-related social issues, is the primary cause of classroom underperformance.
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Bob McManus is a contributing editor of City Journal. He retired as editorial page editor of the New York Post in 2013 and has since worked as a freelance editor, columnist, and writer. This piece was adapted from City Journal.
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