Filipino-American female replaced as Queens superintendent by black male deputy sues NYC for $20M
A Filipino-American woman replaced as a Queens superintendent by her black male deputy has filed a $20 million race and gender discrimination suit against the city Department of Education, The Post has learned.
The Asian-American Pacific Islander attended NYC public schools from K to 12, growing up in subsidized housing in Lower Manhattan. She started working for the DOE as a teacher in 2002, rising to principal, assistant superintendent, and acting superintendent. She was appointed District 27 superintendent in 2019 by then-Chancellor Richard Carranza.
Carreón claimed that she was replaced by David Norment because Chancellor David Banks wanted to elevate black males.“I have been a good fit,” Carreón argued at the town hall, saying she connected with immigrant parents and upheld high expectations for students.“I didn’t have any clue,” Carreón said. “Everyone was texting me, “Why aren’t you here? Why is your deputy here?’
“It’s not a different direction because they hired my deputy,” Carreón said. “I taught him how to do things, and he needed some work. He needed more growth and was not as experienced, or ready to take on the largest district in Queens and one of the largest in the city.”District 27 covers 50 schools with 41,500 students in southern Queens and the Rockaways. The students are 41% Hispanic, 21.9% Asian-American, 20.6% black, and 9.9% white.
In an orientation for the newly-installed superintendents last July, Carreón heard from colleagues that a member of the chancellor’s team commented openly,Carreón, like several other displaced superintendents, accepted a newly created title, executive director of School Support and Operations, in Lower Manhattan’s District 1, at the same salary, $187,400. The appointed superintendents got raises to $215,000 or $230,000.
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