Flame-throwing is no way to lead the schools

Bad enough that a lawsuit from three former city Department of Education officials paints Chancellor Richard Carranza as racially biased. Worse yet, Carranza’s own words seem to confirm it.

As The Post’s Susan Edelman and Aaron Feis report, three veteran DOE staff (all white women) claim Carranza demoted them because of their race, replacing them with less-qualified staffers of color.

The chancellor denies the specific charge of bias, insisting he was just out “to create a management team that was capable of leading the kind of work that we needed to lead.”

But he couldn’t stop himself from saying more: “The children in New York City — 70 percent of whom are black and brown children — get to see senior level administrators that look like them. What’s wrong with that?” That sure sounds like he was making personnel choices with race very much in mind — and thinks he should.

Plus, his new hires then spent millions on “bias training” for DOE staff that ham-handedly equates concepts like “individualism,” “objectivity” and “worship of the written word” with “white-supremacy culture.”

Then again, Carranza has flirted with bigotry since he got here. Two weeks into the job, he tweeted out a story with the headline, “Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.” Then he told one mother who criticized that tweet that she needed “implicit-bias” training.

He’s not only pushing race-driven re-engineering of admissions to city high schools and middle schools, he also declares dissenters to be angry, privileged racists.

Heck, he even played the race card when the city’s Asian communities balked at his proposals, saying he didn’t “buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools.”

Then again, one of his “anti-bias” trainers also reportedly charged that Asians are nearly as privileged as whites — and never mind the poverty levels in the city’s actual Asian-American ’hoods.

Leading the city school system requires an open mind and a sensitive approach to racial and ethnic issues. Carranza has instead proven himself a flame-throwing social-justice warrior.

If Mayor Bill de Blasio ever gets back to paying attention to what’s going on in this town, he’ll ditch this turkey before he leads the schools to disaster.

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