NYC Settles White Executives’ Demotion Suit Over Diversity Push

Three New York City Department of Education executives have agreed to settle their suit over allegations that they were demoted and replaced with less-qualified Black workers, according to a federal judge’s order.

The White women had presented “evidence of a policy of race-based discrimination” under former City Chancellor Richard Carranza’s leadership that was sufficient to advance towards a trial over race discrimination, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York had previously ruled. “Indeed,” the court noted, former Mayor Bill de Blasio “testified that it was ‘a policy’ of his administration to consider race in staffing ...