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Is Carmen Farina the cowardly lioness? Why the NYC chancellor of schools needs to get tough

“Carmen Fariña is the principal everybody loves to fear,” began a 1999 Times profile of the current chancellor when she ran the Upper East Side’s P.S. 6 “with a no-nonsense style and gets results through Darwinian selection.” Where is that woman with the “imposing character”? Instead, we have someone consistently describing herself as a grandmother, […]