WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. From City School District. July 16, 2008: About Our Schools, the school district newsletter announced today that Hazard, Young Attea and Associates had been hired at the cost of $70,000 to conduct a search for a new Superintendent of Schools for the district commencing in July, 2009 when the present Superintendent Timothy Connors retires.  The firm will begin sampling the wishes of the community for citizens want in “leadership qualities” in a new Superintendent at four meetings in September.

The meetings will be at St. Bernard’s Church, September 14 on Sunday at 12:30 P.M; Monday, September 15 at Bethel Baptist Church at 7 P.M.; White Plains High School on Monday, September 22 at 7:30 P.M. and at Education House, Tuesday morning,  September 23 at 10 A.M.

Deja Vu 2002: A determined Dr. Deborah Raizes, addresses the Bethel Baptist crowd at the conclusion of a community meeting in January 2002, on the search that brought White Plains Tim Connors, the present Superintendent. (WPCNR FILE PHOTO)

Deborah Raizes who brought us Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connors will moderate the meetings. The newsletter also reports the seach consultants, which include John Chambers, will meet with groups of staff members, students and others during September.