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School Board Presses on in Superintendent Search; Chooses Search Firm.
Posted on Sunday, November 18 @ 00:02:40 EST by jfbailey
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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.
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