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School Board Presses on in Superintendent Search; Chooses Search Firm.

Posted on November 18, 2001 by John Bailey

The Board of Education is moving on with its search for a superintendent. The City of White Plains Board of Education has selected Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates of Illinois to conduct a search for a successor to Dr. Saul Yanofsky. The firm will be introduced Monday evening at the public November Board of Education meeting to be held at White Plains High School at 8 PM in the B-1 All-Purpose Room.
The Board will recommend approval of the national search firm to conduct a superintendent search for a contract not to exceed $40,000.

Hazard,Young, Attea & Associates is very familiar with the superintendent requirements of the tri-state area having filled superintendent searches in Chappaqua,Pelham,Rye,Scarsdale, and Tuckahoe in Westchester. The firm has delivered superintendents to Long Island districts (Babylon, Lawrence, Three Villages Central School District, and Brighton) and in New Jersey, (Marlboro,Sommerset,Holmdel,South Orange-Maplewood, Tenefly and Westfield).

Mix and Matchmakers

Their most recent successful search was finding Dr. Sal Corda for the Norwalk, Connecticut School District. Dr. Corda was formerly of the Peekskill School District. The firm can be expected to know the demands of a school district like White Plains: a balanced ethnic mix demanding a candidate familiar with managing the politics and fulfilling the special requirements of a special needs population.

The principals

Hazard, Young is run by Dr. William Hazard, and Dr.William J. Attea. Hazard’s background is that of a professor in Administration at Northwestern University, where he has been involved in advanced development of educational administrators for about thirty years.

Attea was a former superintendent of the Glenview, Illinois schools for 24 years, and before he taught as a teacher and was an administrator in New York and Illinois.

National intelligence system

The firm derives its strength from a strong network of “associates,” five of whom are active superintendents, 23 of whom have been superintendents. Twenty percent of the firm associates are mininorities and over 35% are female. The principals and their consulting colleagues reflect the sensitivities of all major races, religions and ethnic origins.

Several associates can bring an understanding of the White Plains, Westchester demands to the search. They include Deborah Raizes, former President of the Scarsdale Board of Education, and John Whritner, former superintendent of Greenwich, Connecticut and Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Searching for Superintendents in 5 area schools

Hazard, Young is currently conducting searches in the following adjacent school districts around Westchester:Hauppauge, NY, Fairfield and Bloomfield, Connecticut; Watchung Hills in Westfield, and the Ridgewood Schools in New Jersey.

New York Superintendents report 23 superintendencies vacant statewide

A check of the New York State Council of School Superintendents reveals that the following other area school systems are searching for superintendents too: Elmsford (which we believe has just been filled), at a salary of $165,000; Lindenhurst, L.I., Rockland BOCES, and Southern Westchester BOCES.

Around the Tri-State area, the NYSCOSS report these communities searching simultaneously with the city of White Plains: Tenafly, Watchung NJ, Weston, Somers, and Watertown, Connecticut.

80 Teens Advise Mayor on Concerns. Mayor’s Blueprint for Youth in Preparation

Posted on November 17, 2001 by John Bailey

Eighty high school students from the city’s high schools, public and private, advised Mayor Joseph Delfino on areas of concern they have about life for teens in the city at the Mayor’s Conference for Youth Thursday. Violence, Employment, Police Youth Relations, Activities cited as concerns.

The Youth Bureau moved to Eastview School this week and is unpacking.
White Plains teens got their chance to make their case for their personal needs to the Mayor of White Plains, recreation and police officials and local business representatives Thursday at the Mayor’s Conference for Youth held at Pace University, according to Frank Williams, Director of the City Youth Bureau.

Mr. Williams said the youths addressed a blue ribbon task force of community and administration leaders assembled by Mayor Delfino to develop a “Blueprint for Youth in the 21st Century in White Plains.”

Police View of Youth Questioned. Jobs, Violence, Activities other Concerns

Williams said the primary complaint the youth in attendance voiced was their perception of being harrassed by the White Plains Police. Williams reported that many teens in attendance noted that police move the youth along in White Plains and view them with suspicion.

WPCNR notes this is not without good intentions. The White Plains Police routinely monitor groups of youth on street corners, in parking lots or congregating on the streets at night for the teens’ own protection because it has been police experience that violence sometimes erupts as a result of this typical “hanging out.” As a reporter who was a teenager himself once, who had a tendency to hang-out, things happen at night when teens hangout. The police are aware of this, too.

Teens attending the conference expressed concern about teen violence, availability of employment for teenagers, and the lack of teen activities.

IBM Vice President Addresses Them About Careers

Mr. Williams reported that Ted Childs, a Vice President of IBM spoke to the attending teens about preparation for careers and was well received.

Crossection of City School Representatives Speak their Minds

According to Williams, teens from city schools included students from Good Counsel, White Plains High School, Archbishop Stepinac, The Community School, and Iona Prep.

The community task force assembled by Mayor Delfino will be preparing the “Blueprint for Youth” based on the teen comments within the next two months, Williams said.

Youth Bureau Moves.

Mr. Williams reports that the White Plains Youth Bureau has officially moved to its new quarters at Eastview School, and says boxes were being unpacked Friday.

New WPCNR POLL: YOU Grade Saul Yanofsky

Posted on November 16, 2001 by John Bailey

In the last CitizeNetReporter Poll, 86 persons checked in, with 67% of them saying they felt the Board of Education was wrong in deciding to terminate Dr. Saul Yanofsky’s contract in June 2002. . Now our Poll gives you the opportunity to comment on whether the Board of Education was correct in its reasons for firing Yanofsky, as outlined in their Thursday letter to the District.

Here’s how to take the poll. Read the latest School Board letter reproduced by WPCNR in the article headlined, “Flash!Testing, Program Evaluation, P.R. Behind Yanofsky Termination.”
Then tell us in the poll whether you agree with the Board’s reasoning.

FLASH! Delgado Strikes Back! Sues for District 18 Revote.

Posted on November 16, 2001 by John Bailey

The Board of Elections told WPCNR Friday that Councilman Larry Delgado has filed a law suit in State Supreme Court in White Plains, calling for a revote in District 18 where a mechanical malfunction of a voting machine reportedly cost Mr. Delgado 100 votes.

Republican Deputy Commissioner of the Board of Elections, Steve Levy, told WPCNR that Mr. Delgato filed his lawsuit Wednesday calling for a revote in District 18 in the North end of White Plains. Levy said the suit has been assigned to Judge Nicholas Colabella, and was scheduled to be heard next week (perhaps Wednesday). Asked when the Judge would rule, Levy said that was up to the judge.

Faulty Delgado Lever Allegedly Cost Delgado Winning Votes

Levy said the grounds for the suit was mechanical error. WPCNR has learned that the lever under Mr. Delgado’s name in the voting machine in that district, located in George Washington School, pulled down normally enough but sometime during the voting the mechanism triggering the vote malfunctioned and was not caught by election inspectors.

What tipped Republican District Runners to this anomaly were the vote tallies for Robert Tuck and Michael Amodio were running at approximately 155 votes each, and Mr. Delgado had been recorded for only approximately 55 votes. Republicans felt this was a call-in error, however during the recanvas Tuesday the machine reportedly was determined to have suffered a mechanical failure where votes could not be recorded.

Historic Action

To the recollection of persons WPCNR has contacted with long knowledge of elections in the city, this is the first time such an action has been taken. Mr. Levy was asked what were the options before Judge Colabella.

According to Levy, Colabella could dismiss the suit, or he could order a revote in District 18. WPCNR asked Levy whether the vote would only be among those voters actually shown in the register as voting November 6, or whether the vote would be open to all voters in the district. Levy said this was up to Judge Colabella to decide.

Colabella, could apparently simply throw out the District 18 vote altogether, dismiss the suit and allow the present count to stand, annointing Hockley, or perhaps even instate the 100 votes Delgado forces are claiming he deservedly should have gotten had the lever been functioning correctly.

Seasoned Obververs Speculate

Speculating at the City Limits Diner, Alex Philippidis and James Benerofe, two longtime observers of typical election suits, thought that Colabella might very well dismiss the suit, since Delgado’s reelection would have no effect on the council majority.

Hockley Reports 65-Vote Margin on Mr. Delgado Friday morning

Present Councilman-elect Glen Hockley, speaking as a guest on the Friday morning White Plains Week show, said as of Friday morning he had a 65-vote margin over Mr. Delgado, and expected the military ballots (the last deadline for receiving such military ballots is Monday) to have no effect. Mr. Delgado could not be contacted for comment.