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NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A former New York City Department of Education employee is accusing multiple defendants of fostering a work environment that included bigotry, marginalization, discrimination, hostility and isolation towards minority populations like white women over 40 years old.
According to a lawsuit filed Feb. 19 in the New York County Supreme Court, Dr. Karen Cohen Ames has filed suit against the NYC DOE, NYC DOE Chancellor Richard Carranza, former NYC DOE First Deputy Chancellor Cheryl Watson-Harris, NYC DOE Senior Executive Director Rahesha Amon, former NYC DOE COO Ursulina Ramirez and David Hay.
Ames was an employee of the NYC DOE for 35 years. Until her termination in July 2020, she served as the District 8 Community Superintendent.
An empty street is seen in Manhattan borough of New York City, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), March 15, 2020. Photo / Jeenah Moon.
A Jewish Bronx school superintendent has filed a $150 million lawsuit that charges antisemitic, racial, and gender discrimination led to her demotion and eventual termination.
Karen Cohen Ames spent 30 years with the New York City Department of Education and was superintendent of a Bronx public school from 2014 to 2018, and said she was often praised for her accomplishments.
In 2018, Chancellor Richard Carranza launched an “equity platform” that Ames claimed was, in fact, “a platform used to create gender, age, racial, and ethnic divisions in the NYC School system.”