NYC schools chancellor Carranza resigns, Meisha Ross Porter steps in

NYC schools chancellor Carranza resigns, Meisha Ross Porter steps in

Longtime NYC educator Meisha Ross Porter to be first Black woman leading nation's largest public school district

NEW YORK – Richard Carranza, the current New York City’s Schools Chancellor announced his resignation Friday and said Meisha Ross Porter will be taking the role.

Porter will be will become the first Black woman to lead the nation's largest school district. 

"This is the great privilege of my life at this moment," Porter said in a press conference.

"She eats, drinks, sleeps and thinks at all times about New York and the children of New York," Carranza said of his successor.

Porter takes the role after the schools' reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic has largely been heralded as a success. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that New York City schools have done a "pretty good job in terms of showing the way" for the rest of the country's schools to reopen.

Carranza cited the need for time to grieve his eleven family members and close friends who died from COVID-19.

"I feel that I can take that time now because of the place that we are in and the work that we have done together," he said.

Carranza said the system reopened safely for children of essential workers, distributed over half a million electronic devices for remote learning, and delivered 80 millions meals to its students. CONTINUE READING: NYC schools chancellor Carranza resigns, Meisha Ross Porter steps in

Richard Carranza resigns, Meisha Porter to be new NYC schools head - New York Daily News

Richard Carranza resigns, Meisha Porter to be new NYC schools head - New York Daily News

NYC schools head Richard Carranza resigns, Meisha Porter to become system’s first Black woman chancellor

Richard Carranza, the New York City schools chancellor who ignited fiery conversations about race and segregation in education and oversaw the seismic shift to remote learning throughout the coronavirus pandemic, will step down March 15 after a three-year tenure, Mayor de Blasio announced Friday.

He will be replaced by Meisha Porter, who currently serves as executive superintendent for the Bronx. Porter will become the first Black woman chancellor of the nation’s largest public school system.

Carranza’s departure will take effect a year to the day after the hectic Sunday last March when officials shuttered city school buildings in an unprecedented response to the growing threat of COVID-19

A year later, roughly 250,000 of the city’s nearly million public school students are attending in-person classes.

City officials say Carranza is stepping aside by his own accord, and doesn’t have a new position lined up. The schools chief has suffered a brutal personal toll from the coronavirus, losing multiple family members to the illness, he’s said on multiple occasions in recent months. CONTINUE READING:  Richard Carranza resigns, Meisha Porter to be new NYC schools head - New York Daily News