New Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza

said in a speech at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s storefront headquarters in Harlem Saturday that schools aren’t meeting the needs of minority students.

Carranza said black and Latino students have “disproportionate suspension rates, disproportionate rates of exclusion from schools, disproportionate rates of children identified as gifted and talented,” in his remarks at the National Action Network.

“Every indicator that should be going down isn’t going down,” he said.