Ed big rip on segregation

SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR Richard Carranza on Friday blasted white parents who oppose efforts to integrate city schools — his most aggressive statement yet on the controversial subject.

Carranza, 51, the child of Mexican immigrants and a veteran educator who took the city’s top schools job barely four weeks ago, first addressed the subject on Twitter at 1 a.m. Friday.

The rookie chancellor tweeted a RawStory recap of a raucous Upper West Side school meeting (photo) Tuesday where white parents spoke out against controversial plans to integrate neighborhood middle schools.

“WATCH: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools,” Carranza tweeted from his official @DOEChancellor account with a link to the video, which originally appeared on NY1.

The tweet linked to the RawStory write-up of the NY1 report on the issue that began: “New effort to diversify schools in the Upper West Side of Manhattan — one of the richest neighborhoods in the city — has drawn an angry reaction from many parents.”

On an unrelated school tour Friday morning in Harlem, Carranza explained his tweet and his views on school segregation, which are more militant than those of his predecessor Carmen Fariña.

Fariña was widely criticized for refusing to even use the word “segregation.”

“These important conversations about creating opportunities for all students are necessary,” Carranza said. “Parents and staff ... raise the issue of segregation in schools — and I’m glad we’re talking about it.”

But when Mayor de Blasio was asked about his new chancellor’s Tweet on his weekly appearance on Brian Lehrer’s radio show Friday morning, he tried to temper Carranza’s words.

“I don’t think he at all intends to vilify anyone — he’s not that type of person,” de Blasio said. “This was his own personal voice ... I might phrase it differently.”

The city’s public schools are among the most segregated in the nation and de Blasio has been criticized for failing to address the issue aggressively.

But Carranza has signaled he’d take a more proactive approach to the issue, and in his first interviews with reporters has said desegregating the city schools would be one of his top priorities.