{"id":335998,"date":"2021-09-07T03:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/carranzas-nepotistic-amore-is-par-for-the-course-for-corrupt-blas-regime\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T03:53:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:53:01","slug":"carranzas-nepotistic-amore-is-par-for-the-course-for-corrupt-blas-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/carranzas-nepotistic-amore-is-par-for-the-course-for-corrupt-blas-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"#Carranza&#8217;s nepotistic amore is par for the course for corrupt Blas regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Carranza&#8217;s nepotistic amore is par for the course for corrupt Blas regime<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Bob McManus\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Former New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza hightailed it to Texas in March, to nobody\u2019s regret save for schoolhouse scammers and their race-baiting buddies. But it turns out he left some unfinished business.<\/p>\n<p>This was attended to last week with the resignation of Raquel Sosa, the one-time elementary-school principal Carranza hauled up from Houston in 2018 and installed as New York\u2019s \u201csenior director\u201d of English-language learning, a $149,000 a year gig.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently worked out well; 10 months later, Carranza elevated his prot\u00e9g\u00e9e to the newly created position of \u201csenior director for implementation\u201d in the Department of Education\u2019s \u201cOffice of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Learning.\u201d The new job came with a nice raise, to $156,000.<\/p>\n<p>And this also seemed to work out well \u2014 really, really well \u2014 for the couple. As The Post\u2019s stellar Susan Edelman reported over the weekend, Carranza \u00adrecently booted his wife\u00a0and moved in with Sosa, who has been working \u00adremotely in San Antonio, where the former schools boss works for a company that scored millions in DOE contracts during his New York tenure. Ain\u2019t love grand?<\/p>\n<p>Where to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s little evidence that classroom \u201clearning\u201d of any sort occurred during Sosa\u2019s three-year tenure, despite her goofy titles. But that seems never to have been the job anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Carranza himself is another story; he was running a grift from the beginning. That is, the teachers union pretended he was boss of the city\u2019s $40-billion school system, in return for which he did his best to eradicate whatever remained of teacher accountability in Gotham.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/220474415_4354725211251857_7546616807829357092_n-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=542\" alt=\"Carranza previously gave Sosa a job as senior director of English-language learning with a salary of $149,000.\" class=\"wp-image-19366731\" width=\"337\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/220474415_4354725211251857_7546616807829357092_n-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=671 674w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/220474415_4354725211251857_7546616807829357092_n-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=503 505w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/220474415_4354725211251857_7546616807829357092_n-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=337 337w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/220474415_4354725211251857_7546616807829357092_n-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=168 168w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/220474415_4354725211251857_7546616807829357092_n-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\"\/><figcaption>Carranza previously gave Sosa a job as senior director of English-language learning with a salary of $149,000.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Really. If you think Carranza\u2019s ceaseless blather about ditching achievement standards on behalf of justice and inclusion was really about justice and inclusion, ask yourself who wins when \u00adobjectivity is deep-sixed in the name of racial \u201cequity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not the kids, 80 percent-plus of whom are black or Hispanic anyway. Not their parents. Not New York\u2019s overburdened tax base. Not simple decency, nor respect for a great city\u2019s intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nope, the only winner is the United Federation of Teachers, as always, because one can\u2019t separate wheat from chaff if one can\u2019t tell the difference between wheat and chaff \u2014 and because honest\u00a0accountability begins with that difference.<\/p>\n<p>And the slouch to mediocrity certainly has survived Carranza. Why else would his successor, Meisha Porter, be doing away with honors programs, and why else would New York\u2019s world-class selective high schools be teetering on extinction?<\/p>\n<p>Mayor de Blasio, who nominally runs the schools, is fine with it all, because he\u2019s a union toady, too. And because if the price of having Carranza out front on the \u201cequity\u201d scam was a little nepotistic amore on the side, hey, it was only one more hustle among the many, right?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was the preschool-cum-free-daycare scam, wherein the city gave the\u00a0union and select nonprofits a multibillion-dollar cash bath in return for not much that\u2019s obvious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There was mayoral wife Chirlane McCray\u2019s ThriveNYC scam \u2014 a billion-dollar boondoggle nominally meant to address mental health. Nonprofits got the cash, and New Yorkers got lethally dangerous subway platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There were municipal welfare boss Steven Banks\u2019 various homelessness initiatives \u2014 huge outlays to nonprofits accompanied by an explosion of addiction-driven vagrancy, street \u00adencampments, aggressive panhandling and building-shed homesteading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By virtually every objective measure \u2014 crime stats in particular \u2014 New Yorkers are worse off than they were eight years ago. The pandemic was a heavy blow, to be sure, but the decline was well underway long before it struck.<\/p>\n<p>And very little about that \u00addecline seems random. Whether it\u2019s the teachers union looking after its particular interests, or Carranza tending to his own, the pattern has been consistent: The well-connected benefit; the poor and the powerless, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>The de Blasio mayoralty was deeply, darkly cynical from the beginning, and now, with four months left, Kaiser Wilhelm seems to have his eye on Albany.<\/p>\n<p>This should be a laugh and a half, of course, except that a state that elected Govs. Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo is capable of anything \u2014 so nothing can safely be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, Almost Mayor-elect Eric Adams will be jumping into a toxic swamp come New Year\u2019s Day. Whether he is capable of navigating it, or is even inclined to try, will be Test One.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here\u2019s hoping Richard and Raquel live happily ever after \u2013 on their own dime, for a change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @RLMac2\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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