WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. February 25, 2006: The Board of Education has announced the retirement of Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Personnel Services, the dignified, tireless, meticulously articulate and forthright Joseph Casbarro, whose reasonable approach to policy making and fitting special needs and disabled students to outside services has had a knack for benefiting both student and district.

Joseph Casbarro. Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Personnel Services, at a recent School Board Meeting. Photo, WPCNR News Archive.

Casbarro's steady and rational approach to forming difficult policies ranging from code of conduct and discipline procedures will be missed. Mr. Casbarro had major input into summer school procedures, the Newcomers Center, BOCES resources and budget refinement, maintaining the vital balance between paying for outside services and selecting services that provide adequately for special needs children.

Mr. Casbarro is the last veteran member of the former School Suprintendent Saul Yanofsky's cabinet remaining presently on Superintendent of Schools Tim Connors' staff .Casbarro has been with Mr. Connors for the four years Connors has been Superintendent of Schools. After July 1, when Mr. Casbarro leaves, the district will be going into the critical 2007-2008 School Budget Year with a new Assistant Superintendents for Business and Pupil Services .