Jennifer Carreon has filed a $20 million discrimination lawsuit against the city Department of Education. Helayne Seidman
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.
Jennifer Carreón, 45, contends Chancellor David Banks demoted her to install her less-experienced No. 2, David Norment, out of desire to elevate black males.
The Manhattan Supreme Court suit, filed this week, is the first to legally challenge Banks’ choice of superintendents since he made all 45 reapply for their jobs last year in what he called “a shakeup.”
One of 12 removed, Carreón was assigned a lesser bureaucratic role.
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 told The Post that she hired Norment as her deputy, and took him under her wing. “I was fostering and nurturing his leadership,” she said.
She even encouraged him to become a superintendent.
“When the process opened, he did tell me that he wanted to apply for the Bronx, because that’s where he lives. I said, ‘Oh, good luck, Let me know what I can do to support you.’”
To her surprise, the DOE invited Norment to a District 27 town hall to compete with his boss for her job.
Norment, an ex-principal at PS 140 in Jamaica, told the Community Education Council that he’d be the best leader to “turn around” schools with low test scores.
Carreón claimed that she was replaced by David Norment because Chancellor David Banks wanted to elevate black males.district27nyc.org
“I have been a good fit,” Carreón argued at the town hall, saying she connected with immigrant parents and upheld high expectations for students.
In a final blow, Banks introduced the winners at a City Hall press conference.
“I didn’t have any clue,” Carreón said. “Everyone was texting me, “Why aren’t you here? Why is your deputy here?’
“It was a huge shock. I was devastated, because I was succeeding. I was highly effective. That was my last evaluation.”
Banks made all 45 superintendents reapply for their jobs last year.Matthew McDermott
Desmond Blackburn, Bank’s since-departed deputy chancellor for leadership, had previously praised her 20-minute PowerPoint pitch — in which she described her accomplishments and plans — to remain in the post.
After her ouster, she said, Blackburn gave no explanation except, “The chancellor decided to go in a different direction.”
“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.”
Carreón originally hired Norment (second from right) to be her deputy.Twitter D27NYC
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.
Banks bowed “to the discriminatory push by certain members of the community to select Norment solely because of his race,” the suit charges.
Lisa Johnson Cooper, president of District 27’s Community Education Council, a panel of parents who interviewed the candidates, told The Post she got personal Facebook messages from residents urging support for “the brother,” referring to Norment.
Carreón said she was shocked because she was “highly effective” at her job.Helayne Seidman
Cooper, who is black, wrote back: “Y’all vote by party line and by color. That’s crazy to me and no, I’m not getting ‘the brother’ in.”
In an orientation for the newly-installed superintendents last July, Carreón heard from colleagues that a member of the chancellor’s team commented openly, “Look around the room – what do you notice? There’s a black male at every table,” the suit says.
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.
“I feel degraded,” she said. “I’ve worked so hard my entire career, did everything you’re supposed to do, and exceeded expectations. Everything was always pointing upwards.”
Carreón’s lawyers, Davida Perry and Brian Heller, also have pending race-discrimination suits against the DOE on behalf of four white womenand a white male who all claim that ex-Chancellor Carranza demoted and replaced them with less-qualified people of color.
DOE and city Law Department officials would not comment.
Former Queens superintendent claims city replaced her to elevate black men, sues NYC for $20M
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Im curious, who is funding her defence?
The whole thing with the college enrollment or affirmative action debate taught me that Asians are often used as puppets when they are up against black people. Im certain there is a white dude somewhere stroking a cat, and smoking a cigar in a poorly lit basement right now, plotting this legal case out while laughing into the moonlight.
The whole thing with the college enrollment or affirmative action debate taught me that Asians are often used as puppets when they are up against black people. Im certain there is a white dude somewhere stroking a cat, and smoking a cigar in a poorly lit basement right now, plotting this legal case out while laughing into the moonlight.
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She has no case and now she's exposed her mindstate
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No more PAWGs, PLEASE??!!!??
Something else is going on here. I hope that the case goes to court so I can get the real.
tired of the letigious culture in this country. shyt is disgusting
this stupid c*nt should be made to pay his lawyer fees. that's how the UK does it, loser pays. its unacceptable that you can just sue a motherfukker and they have to pay their lawyer, and that goes for the government too
this stupid c*nt should be made to pay his lawyer fees. that's how the UK does it, loser pays. its unacceptable that you can just sue a motherfukker and they have to pay their lawyer, and that goes for the government too
why not sue a city? these fakkits probably took the case for no charge, because they'll eat on a quick settlement
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He's a dikk you p*ssy y'all neighbours
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yepIm curious, who is funding her defence?
The whole thing with the college enrollment or affirmative action debate taught me that Asians are often used as puppets when they are up against black people. Im certain there is a white dude somewhere stroking a cat, and smoking a cigar in a poorly lit basement right now, plotting this legal case out while laughing into the moonlight.
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Even if she was right, an employer is under no legal obligation to hire or promote the most qualified person. Society understands and accepts this when white men (and white women) attain jobs they aren’t qualified for, due to good old boy networks or other connections. But when black people benefit it disgusts people so much they do dumb shyt like file a frivolous lawsuit.
She’ll lose and move to a heavily Asian location in California where this story won’t harm her reputation or next jobs search.
She’ll lose and move to a heavily Asian location in California where this story won’t harm her reputation or next jobs search.
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He couldn't possibly just be a better fit for the position, and you couldn't possibly be worse than you think you are?
Lol she didn't make the cut but had a job created out of thin air for her with the same salary and she's still mad? Get your bytch ass on somewhere.