New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza Stepping Down
CBS New York 2/27/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza suddenly announced Friday that he will step down, the latest top commissioner to flee the lame duck de Blasio administration in the middle of the pandemic.
The torch is being passed to a homegrown product of New York City schools – who becomes the city’s first African-American woman chancellor.
As CBS2’s political reporter Marcia Kramer reports, when Mayor Bill de Blasio went to the reopening of a Bronx middle school Thursday, he had a secret: Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza was calling it quits, and a woman wearing a blue blazer who was with him, Meisha Ross Porter, was his replacement.
Current and Former Athletes Endorse Ray McGuire For NYC Mayor
Raymond McGuire (Image: YouTube)
Sports For Ray, a coalition of former and current athletes, team owners, nonprofit leaders and others are endorsing Ray McGuire for New York City Mayor.
In an open letter, the group says like every other New York City resident, they long for a New York where it will be safe to gather and cheer for the city’s teams whether it be in Little League or playing professionally.
“And, with Ray McGuire guiding us, we know that is exactly the New York we will have,” the letter states. “Politics as usual simply will not cut it in our post-COVID New York. We need an audacious vision that will look beyond the same old tired political solutions and approaches. We need someone new calling plays for the five boroughs. That is why we choose Ray.”
Mateo works as a spokesman for Hispanics Across America, the state Federation of Taxi Drivers and United Bodegas of America and is the first Latino immigrant to run for mayor as a Republican.
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