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.