Schools boss rips ‘screen’

NEW SCHOOLS Chancellor Richard Carranza on Wednesday ripped the city’s practice of screening students for admission to public schools.

Speaking to the crowd at an event to trumpet admissions to city 3-K programs, with Mayor de Blasio also in attendance, Carranza surprised onlookers by criticizing the use of admission screens.

A reporter asked Carranza, who started in his job April 2, about the effect school screens, or admissions criteria, have on school segregation.

Carranza responded with some of his most aggressive statements on school segregation yet.

“Why are we screening kids? Why are we screening for admission? And that’s a question that I’ve posed to my colleagues out in the field as well,” said Carranza.

“That’s to me antithetical to what I think we all want for our kids,” Carranza added.

Carranza, 51, the son of Mexican immigrants, is a veteran educator who took the city’s top schools job after de Blasio’s first choice rejected the role.