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The Social Order When New York City’s Department of Education cancelled Christopher Columbus Day earlier this month, it caught Mayor Bill de Blasio flat-footed. “I’m miffed,” he responded explaining that he hadn’t gotten a heads-up because the department is “a massive bureaucracy” and sometimes things slip into the cracks. It’s probably fair to say that the parents of the city’s 1.1 million school children not invested in New York’s ceaseless Columbus kerfuffle but stranded during the pandemic by de Blasio’s $36 billion bureaucracy and betrayed by the United Federation of Teachers are more miffed than the mayor. As well they should be. And doubtless they wonder why the platoon of candidates now seeking to replace the term-limited de Blasio isn’t making much of an issue of the DOE’s appalling pandemic performance or the teachers’ union’s full-pay Covid-19 stay-home strike. ....
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. ....