Can’t take the tweet

Ed. chief’s ‘apology’

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semiapology Monday for retweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school-desegregation plan as wealthy white racists.

Embroiled in a racially charged controversy barely a month in his tenure, Carranza said he would not have couched the matter so frankly.

“I retweeted, and that language was automatically generated, and if that has caused any kind of anger, I apologize for that,” he said in an unrelated visit to a Queens school. “That is not the intent.”

The former San Francisco and Houston schools boss ignited a furor Friday when he retweeted a link to an article from the news site Raw Story headlined “Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.”

“I would not have said it that way,” he said Monday before promising more discretion with his tweeting.

The Raw Story article included NY1 footage of a meeting where white parents railed against a proposal that would put kids from struggling, predominantly minority schools into their children’s classrooms.

The city Department of Education proposal would reserve 25 percent of seats at well-performing middle schools in District 3 for area students who score below grade level on state exams.

Some at the meeting argued the plan would hurt kids who would have earned admission to better performing schools under the current system.

“You’re [telling] an 11-year-old, ‘You worked your butt off, and you didn’t get that, what you needed or wanted,’ ” one woman rails in the NY1 video.

“You’re telling them, ‘You’re going to go to [another] school that’s not going to educate you in the same way you’ve been educated. Life sucks!’ ”

The chancellor on Monday reiterated his condemnation of comments made at the meeting.

“We have students that come through our door that are disadvantaged, and to not pay attention to that is just absolutely not acceptable,” he said, adding that he thought the District 3 proposal was “modest.”

“Let’s stop talking about a tweet and start talking about the issue — and the issue is segregated schools.”