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City lawmakers are demanding that incoming schools chief Richard Carranza bring his focus on ethnic and LGBTQ studies with him from Houston to new York.

Joining activists at City Hall, City Council members called on Mayor de Blasio to give Carranza full authority to promote “bold” changes to city curriculums that emphasize “culturally responsive education.”

Along with new council Education Committee Chairman Mark Treyger and Finance Chairman Daniel Dromm, the Coalition for Educational Justice called on Hizzoner to give Carranza the “power, budget and staff” to implement reforms.

Twenty council members signed a letter asking Carranza — replacing the retiring Carmen Fariña on April 2 — to “take bold action.”

The group demanded a new focus on the history and culture of African, Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern and Native American communities in city schools.

They also called on a focus on their “intersections with gender, LGBTQ and religious diversity.”

Carranza served in San Francisco for four years and then as Houston’s schools chief for 18 months.

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