School Board Awards Tenure to 28, Adopts Budget

by Melany Gray

Mamaroneck High School principals and newly tenured staff.

(April 10, 2008) In contrast to the past months of weighty deliberations on capital improvements and budget items, the mood at the Mamaroneck School Board meeting on Tuesday, April 8 was celebratory and marked by bouquets of flowers as parents, children and colleagues of the 24 district employees receiving tenure filled the tiered classroom at the high school. Recipients included Gail Boyle, director of special education at the secondary schools, and Mario Washington, assistant principal at Mamaroneck High School, as well as two psychologists, one social worker, seventeen teachers and two teaching assistants. Also recognized were four teachers who had been awarded tenure earlier in the year.

See list below for names of everyone receiving tenure.

Tenured teachers from Murray Avenue School

Hommocks Middle School principals and their newly tenured staff

Budget Approved With Tax Increase of 5.75%

The board also adopted a proposed budget of $116,923,297 for the 2008-2009 school year, representing a 5.89% increase over last year’s budget and an anticipated tax increase of 5.75%. This budget represents cuts of more than $4 million from the budget first proposed by the superintendent in early March. (See:Mam'k School Budget Drops to $116.9M With 5.75% Tax Hike .) For more information about what is in and out of the budget, see previous articles, including: Prelim School Budget Would Hike Taxes 9.9%; Cuts To Come from March 6 and Schools Are Delaying Capital Bond Vote to the Fall from April 3. The proposed budget will be put to the community for a vote on May 20.

New Staff Being Hired

In other school news, Peter Scordo, assistant superintendent for administration and personnel, advised that the district is looking to hire more than a dozen new teachers and staff members for the fall as well as a new principal for Chatsworth School, since the current principal is leaving at the end of the year.

Central School's principal and newly tenured teachers.

Mamaroneck Avenue School's principal and newly tenured teachers.

Tenure Recipients

Melany Gray is co-president of the Mamaroneck High School PTA.

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