De Blasio Chooses Educator Carmen Farina to Head NYC Schools
Source: Bloomberg
New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio chose Carmen Farina, who has worked for 40 years as a teacher and administrator in the city school system, as education chancellor, the New York Times reported.
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Farina, 70, has been an informal policy adviser to de Blasio for more than 12 years, ever since the mayor-elect served on a Brooklyn school board that made her district superintendent. Before that, she spent 22 years as a teacher at P.S. 29 in the borough’s Cobble Hill section.
As leader of the nation’s largest school system, with more than 1 million students and about 75,000 teachers, Farina will set curriculum and personnel policies. She also will advise city officials negotiating with the teachers union, which has been without a contract since 2009.
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Farina has long advocated more resources devoted to early-childhood and middle-school education. In speeches and panel discussions, she has espoused an education philosophy consistent with de Blasio’s, de-emphasizing standardized testing and focusing on character development and intellectual curiosity.
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Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio today announced his appointment of Carmen Fariña as Schools Chancellor. In naming Fariña to lead the nation’s largest school system, de Blasio—himself a public school parent—emphasized his commitment to working with parents as partners in education, establishing truly universal pre-kindergarten for four-year-olds and after-school programs for middle schoolers, and prioritizing college and career readiness over high-stakes testing.
Fariña has 40 years of experience in New York City public schools. She began her career as a teacher at P.S. 29 in Cobble Hill, later rising to become a principal at Manhattan’s P.S. 6 and the superintendent of Brooklyn’s District 15. Fariña was appointed Deputy Chancellor for Teaching and Learning in 2004, and later went on to become a vocal advocate outside of government for comprehensive early education and parental involvement in school policy.
For her Chief of Staff, Fariña appointed Ursulina Ramirez, a former social worker, Deputy Public Advocate and current Deputy Director of Mayor-Elect de Blasio’s Transition.
“Carmen won’t just be my chancellor as mayor; she’ll be my chancellor as a public school parent. For years, I’ve watched her innovate new ways to reach students, transform troubled schools and fight against wrongheaded policies that hurt our kids. Carmen has worked at nearly every level of this school system. She knows our students, teachers, principals and parents better than anyone, and she will deliver progressive change in our schools that lifts up children in every neighborhood,” said Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio.
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