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FOR THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK

Annual Report

Reporting our progress for 2010-2011

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Table of Contents

Letter From Archbishop Dolan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Catholic Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Regionalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Academics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Enrollment Strategies and Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Staff List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

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“From a character point of view, Catholic schools impart discipline and virtue in a climate of safety, trust, shared values and love .”

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Dear Friends in Christ,

Catholic education is thriving in the Archdiocese of New York! I am pleased to share with you this Annual Report which highlights our accomplishments over the past year.

Last year, we launched Pathways to Excellence, a strategic plan to strengthen Catholic education in the archdiocese. We have identified significant challenges. Our progress points toward an even brighter future, as we together continue our sacred mission of passing on our faith while splendidly and effectively educating the beloved children in our care.

Though we celebrate our success, we are by no means complacent. Pathways to Excellence calls for a reassertion of our Catholic identity, ongoing professional development for our principals and teachers, and continued improvement of our math and science scores. Additionally, as we move into our plans for regionalization of our schools, we look forward to opportunities for our pastors to join with our laity to cultivate broader avenues of support in the areas of governance, finance, recruitment and aggressive marketing strategies at each of our schools. These shared efforts will help ensure our Catholic schools into the 21st century.

We gain energy by remembering that Catholic education is a lifelong gift to our students – a gift that provides an ethical compass in a complex and changing world. Our schools foster spiritual formation, character development, and respectful, supportive, safe environments that enable students to thrive spiritually, academically and socially. More than simply producing intelligent, competent future college graduates, we help mold young men and women of character – responsible citizens ready and willing to serve others throughout their lives.

My commitment to quality, accessible, affordable Catholic education for all children in our archdiocese remains steadfast. I hope you enjoy this Annual Report that outlines our excellent work to date and extends an invitation to participate in the work that remains.

Thank you for all you do for our schools.

With prayerful best wishes, I remain,

Faithfully in Christ,

Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan Archbishop of New York

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Catholic education in the Archdiocese of New York has a solid foundation and a proud history. Its success and persistence reflect the dedication of pastors, principals, teachers and parents to the idea of combining faith formation with academic excellence in a classroom setting. Catholic education also speaks to the importance of reshaping the school system to reflect educational advances and demographic shifts. Catholic schools in the archdiocese are uniquely suited to respond to the needs of a new generation.

We continue to implement Pathways to Excellence, a strategic plan designed to strengthen and expand our extensive elementary education program. The thoughtful, ambitious plan includes multiple strategies, both large and small. Already, we have implemented changes that have positively impacted our approach to Catholic identity, governance and finance, leadership, academics and enrollment strategies and communication. We have recruited new academic partners, streamlined processes and collected important data to help shape our efforts as we move forward. We are building on our traditional strengths and positioning our schools to ensure that high-quality Catholic education continues to be an outstanding, vibrant and sought-after option for current and future New Yorkers.

The Catholic schools of the archdiocese are academically strong, and they get better every year. On standardized New York State tests, archdiocesan students consistently outpace their peers in English Language Arts and perform well in math and science. We are proud of the tremendous academic successes we have shaped, particularly in neighborhoods where our students speak English as a second language.

We have used new and proven tools to achieve targeted, ongoing and sustained progress in curriculum and instruction, teacher professional development and accountability. For the second year in a row, our efforts were recognized by the U.S. Department of Education with Blue Ribbon School status for two elementary schools. Only forty-nine private schools in the nation achieved that designation. We have now added four new Blue Ribbon schools in the archdiocese in two years.

We have improved our religious instruction by helping teachers whose students struggled with the annual archdiocesan religion assessment, and we have concentrated on supporting teachers in their own spiritual formation and growth as catechists. In conjunction with the archdiocesan Respect Life Office, we have begun to implement a chastity education program for students in 7th through 12th grades and their parents.

Our schools are staffed and led by bright, committed, talented educators. We identify potential leaders among our faculty and support them on their path to join the

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Timothy J. McNiff, Ed.D. Superintendent of Schools

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ranks of outstanding principals. Through a collaboration with St. John’s University and the Diocese of Brooklyn, we train and develop prospective leaders at The Curran Principal Academy.

Pathways to Excellence envisions fully-enrolled schools. To achieve that goal, we embarked on a marketing campaign entitled Build Bold Futures to recruit and retain students. We are successfully using two cost-effective websites to tell parents about values-based, modern Catholic education and help them locate a school in their neighborhood. And we implemented a personalized, pastoral approach to invite families of closing schools to transition to other Catholic schools. More than 60 percent enrolled in alternative Catholic schools, compared to an estimated 25 percent who did so after earlier school closings.

We have embarked on regionalization, a bold new approach to governance and finance that will make sure that our excellent elementary school system is sustainable and fiscally sound. This long-term plan modernizes familiar structures and systems and gives every parish responsibility and authority for Catholic education. Under regionalization, the laity are called to govern schools alongside clergy. Every parish, whether it has a school on its premises or not, will contribute to and have a voice in Catholic education.

Regionalization is a forward-thinking initiative that relies on community-based decision-making to address the goals and needs of local students. It is being implemented over a three-year period, with careful planning and evaluation each step of the way. Our new model for governance and finance is inspired by the success of a local governance program for Catholic high schools in the archdiocese.

Our Catholic high schools have a well-deserved reputation for excellence. A total of 96 percent of the Catholic high school seniors graduating in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available, enrolled in two- or four-year colleges. In the 2009-2010 academic year, archdiocesan Catholic high schools exceeded state-wide passing rates on all five of the Regents exams needed for graduation.

This annual report is a snapshot of the progress we have made in the past year. We have used the structure and vision of the Pathways to Excellence strategic plan as a starting point. But the plan, like our Catholic schools system, is a dynamic one. We are energized by our successes and emboldened to predict that, in the coming year, we will accomplish even greater things as we prepare our students for life in a changing world.

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Catholic high schools in the archdiocese have a senior graduation rate of 99 percent, and 96 percent of those graduates pursue higher education.

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Total Number of Schools in Archdiocese

ELEMENTARY EARLY CHILDHOOD SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION

MANHATTAN 38 1 15 4BRONX 52 0 13 0STATEN ISLAND 24 2 7 3WESTCHESTER 33 6 11 1PUTNAM 1 1 0 0DUTCHESS 8 1 1 0ORANGE 8 1 1 0ROCKLAND 7 1 1 0SULLIVAN 1 0 0 0ULSTER 3 0 1 0TOTALS 175 13 50 8

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Catholic identity is the outstanding feature that distinguishes the schools of the archdiocese from their public and private counterparts. The Catholic faith and the values it upholds permeate every aspect of school life. Catholic schools are diverse and welcome children of all faiths, while they cultivate, celebrate and sustain a strong and distinctively Catholic identity. Parents who choose Catholic schools appreciate that the teachers and administrators are grounded in the faith and will confidently teach and model its ideals.

The archdiocese encourages teachers and principals to develop and strengthen their own faith and their capacity to teach it. This year, all teachers and principals attended retreat programs that explored the Eucharist as the source and summit of Catholic identity. Principals helped teachers advance the levels of their catechist certification.

Pathways to Excellence called for increased rigor and heightened expectations for religious instruction. In response, the annual archdiocesan religion exam was revised and a group of teachers and priests was empanelled to review it. A new pacing guide was adopted to ensure that students re-visit important catechetical topics throughout the year. Each school gets a monthly ‘values packet’ that focuses on a single Catholic value and a saint who embodied it. Individual schools use the Value of the Month and the Works of Mercy to develop a related, appropriate service project for students to demonstrate their understanding of the value. Schools will celebrate vocations month with informative visits from vocations directors of local religious orders.

Educate to Elevate, a training program to improve religious education, worked with teachers in grades 3 through 8 in 32 schools to deepen understanding and elevate scores on the

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annual assessment. Significant gains were measured in this ongoing effort.

At the direction of Archbishop Dolan, the religious education curriculum will feature an expanded focus on chastity education. The Respect Life Office has recruited four Generation Life missionaries, young adults who make pro-chastity presentations for students in grades 7 through 12.

Our high schools’ commitment to spiritual formation continues through liturgies, retreats and community service. Campus ministry programs promote the March for Life and Pro-Life Day, as well as Midnight Runs serving the homeless.

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Number of Schools where 70 percent or more of students passed the religion exam

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Efforts will be made to ensure all teachers achieve Catechist Formation certification

The new program,Educate to Elevate, will be used to assist lower performing schools

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Note: Only elementary schools operating during the 2010-11 school year with more than one year of score data reported were included in the analysis. Not all elementary schools reported scores each year. If a school did not report its scores for a specific year, then it was assumed that 70 percent or more of its students did not pass the religion exam.

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Regionalization is a bold new approach to elementary school governance and finance designed to ensure a vibrant, sustainable Catholic elementary school system in the Archdiocese of New York, both now and in the future.

Regionalization is the second phase of the foundation of the governance and finance plan described in Pathways to Excellence. It will be implemented over the next three years. Last year, the reconfiguration process involved a review of every parish elementary school to determine its future viability, based on financial, enrollment and demographic trends. The review led to the closure of twenty-six of our elementary schools at the end of the 2010-11 school year.

To support students transitioning to another Catholic school, student placement counselors, hired in each district, assisted all families affected by the school closures and provided

individualized solutions for their specific needs. As a result of the counselors’ efforts, more than 60 percent of the affected students selected another Catholic school for the 2011-12 school year.

Regionalization is the grouping together of parish elementary schools into geographic regions. As directed by Archbishop Dolan, every parish, regardless of whether it has a school or not, will be responsible for, contribute to, and have a voice in Catholic education in the archdiocese. The schools in a region will be governed by a two-tiered membership corporation with the Archbishop, Vicar General and Chancellor at the Member level. The Board of Trustees will include clergy and laity, who will be called to an expanded leadership role in school governance.

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Members of the Corporation

Archbishop, Vicar General, Chancellor

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Catholic IdentityFacilities and Buildings

Finance and AuditMarketing and Development

NominatingPrograms and Strategic Planning

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Regionalization will improve and strengthen the Catholic elementary education for current and future New Yorkers. Specifically, regionalization will achieve:

∂Sustainable, fiscally sound schools providing an excellent Catholic education

∂ An infusion of additional talent through the increased role of the laity in school governance

∂ Community-based decision-making that more fully addresses the goals and needs of schools

∂ More funds available for academic enhancements, scholarships and parish religious education programs

∂ Increased funding available for parish outreach and ministries

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“Church law, archdiocesan expectations and, one could argue, the moral law are all clear: the duty to support Catholic education belongs to us all.” – Archbishop Dolan

Working with the central offices of the archdiocese, a local Regional Office will be created to support the schools in each region with educational, operational and financial services.

Reinvestment is an essential component of regionalization. It entails reallocating current resources back into Catholic education, while identifying and securing additional funding sources. The goal is a system of strong, accessible, affordable Catholic schools, sustained by every parish, supported by every Catholic and available to every child.

All stakeholder groups, including pastors, parishioners, school parents, principals, teachers and benefactors, will be invited to learn about regionalization and provide feedback through meetings and ongoing communication. In the coming months, the boards of the three pilot regions will be identified and undertake a training program on board operations. The pilot regions will become operational in September 2012. Throughout the rollout of regionalization, stakeholders will be encouraged to be actively involved, to insure a revitalized school system of academic excellence and authentic faith formation.

October/November December January/February 2012

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Conduct Townhall Meetings Communicate To All Stakeholders

Identify Board Members Start Board Training

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Key Regionalization Dates for Fall and Early Winter 2011-2012

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Leadership excellence depends on the ability to recruit, develop and evaluate outstanding principals and help them collaborate with pastors, parents and administrators.

This year, the archdiocese embarked on an aggressive and comprehensive principal search process that includes strategic relationships with universities, increased attendance at career fairs and graduate school information sessions and engaging advertising. As a result, the pool of potential principals was increased significantly and pastors had more qualified candidates for the positions that were open.

There were seven graduate fellows this year from The Curran Principal Academy, a two-year training program for aspiring principals who are current teachers in archdiocesan schools. The Academy collaborates with the Diocese of Brooklyn and St. John’s University and incorporates master’s degree studies with applied leadership training and the option of serving a full-time or

part-time internship as an assistant principal in a participating Catholic school. Now in its third cohort, The Curran Principal Academy continues to be an integral formation program for aspiring principals in the Archdiocese of New York. The program produces high caliber candidates for open principal positions. All of the seven fellows are now serving as principals in our Catholic schools.

In keeping with objectives described in Pathways to Excellence, the process to screen principal candidates was expanded to four stages and now correlates to leadership standards measured in the new principal assessment tool. That tool is the product of a thoughtful, comprehensive upgrade of principal standards, evaluation and professional development practices.

The assessment tool was introduced as a pilot last year and honed with feedback from users. Principals throughout

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the archdiocese will now use it for goal-setting and targeted professional development.

Current principals participated in summer sessions on development and fundraising, marketing and enrollment, professional learning communities, differentiated instruction and reflective feedback. Fourteen new principals are attending monthly professional development workshops and will have the opportunity to visit and observe other schools outside their district to learn from other principals and conduct instructional walk-throughs. In this way, experienced principals can share their wisdom and “best practices” with the new principals.

The archdiocese developed a principal toolkit that includes curriculum pacing guides and protocols to enhance supervision of teaching and learning. Principals now have a Teach.Lead.Serve. database of more than 1,500 teacher applicants available for placement in archdiocesan schools.

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The Office of the Superintendent of Schools is committed to mentoring enthusiastic elementary school leaders and helping them develop their talents within the education system.

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Catholic education provides a superior academic experience. From a challenging curriculum and quality instruction, to ongoing teacher development and objective accountability, Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New York set high standards – and exceed them.

Two elementary schools were recognized this year as Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. They were among 304 in the country and only 49 private schools to achieve this status. They join two other archdiocesan schools that were similarly recognized in 2010.

Students in Catholic schools are motivated and prepared to succeed in high school and beyond. Throughout the archdiocese, students perform well on national ITBS and New York State standardized tests, and their results improve every year. Teachers provide differentiated instruction and ensure that 21st century skills are taught and practiced. Educators

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have ongoing and sustained opportunities for professional development, and continuous improvement is supported by allocating resources to all schools.

Sustaining Excellence, an intensive two-year academic support initiative, was rolled out this year in fifteen inner-city schools. Five more schools have now been added. The Sustaining Excellence program uses extensive data analysis and works closely with school teachers and faculty to interpret quantitative and qualitative data. It provides principal coaching support and creates a school leadership team to guide strategic planning and continuous improvement for the entire school community.

The archdiocesan emphasis on early childhood education grew this year, with the addition of programs, teachers and students, as well as a full-time director for pre-kindergarten programs. Early childhood education, including state-funded universal pre-kindergarten hours, provides children the skills and foundation they will need to be successful in elementary school.

Students with special learning needs receive support and encouragement to reach their maximum potential. The archdiocese hired a full-time director for special education and focused on professional development for principals and teachers, including understanding Instructional Educational Programs (IEP) and determining if and how a student’s needs can be met within the Catholic school setting. A thirteen-member Special Education Committee was established to help teachers identify struggling students, develop strategies to support them and adapt the curriculum in general education classes.

In support of elementary school teachers, tailored summer professional development symposiums were conducted in each of the five geographic districts of the archdiocese. A separate symposium was also held for high school teachers.

St. John’s University continues to be a generous partner to Catholic elementary schools in the archdiocese. It funded the launch of Project TIE (Training Innovative Educators) at two Manhattan schools this year and will continue to support this three-year program to provide school-wide professional development, including literacy and math coaching. St. John’s also spearheaded the development and expansion of Curriculum Leadership Teams in seven schools, which receive intensive training in new curriculum and instructional practices to fit the needs of today’s students. The Teams will concentrate on the implementation of the New York State Common Core State Learning Standards, especially differentiated instructional practices, formative and summative assessments and technology integration. Teachers throughout the archdiocese will prepare to implement additions to the Common Core Standards approved this year by the Board of Regents. Professional development on these new standards began this year.

Pathways to Excellence encouraged responsible use of new technologies. Four schools introduced Time to Know, a core curriculum teaching platform that blends digital and traditional instruction in ELA and math.

Teachers and principals are using student assessment data to more effectively inform classroom instruction and academic intervention. They participated in the second annual archdiocesan-wide December Data Day to analyze diagnostic ITBS test results, identify student weaknesses and strengths, develop action plans and address instructional needs. This framework is part of an ongoing continuous improvement model in which assessment data is reviewed, analyzed and used to identify key action steps.

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The archdiocese is spreading the word about its excellent schools and the value of a Catholic education through targeted marketing and with a single voice. Marketing efforts have been built on the concept of Build Bold Futures with a Catholic Education, the theme of a multi-media campaign aimed at raising public awareness of the accessibility, affordability and life-transforming benefits of Catholic education. This key message has been consistently executed across multiple print and digital platforms, anchored by a fully redesigned superintendent’s website, www.adnyeducation.org, and linked to a bilingual recruitment site, www.BuildBoldFutures.org, that collects information requests from parents about specific schools and provides principals with genuine recruitment leads.

The Build Bold Futures campaign is immediately recognizable in bus shelters in the Bronx, print and digital ads in Manhattan, Staten Island and Westchester/Putnam and even in cinema ads

in the Upper Counties. Every marketing initiative reinforces the academic quality, faith and values that define Catholic schools and provides a foundation for specific, individual school promotions.

The 100-page, updated superintendent’s website has quickly become an informational asset for parents and school administrators throughout the system of schools, with up-to-date press releases and district-wide data, open house information and school calendars available for download.

Winner of a 2010 W3 Silver Award honoring excellence in web design and marketing, the elementary school site BuildBoldFutures.org provides schools, for the first time, with a trackable database of interested parents, and has already been identified as a factor in more than two dozen enrollments. Based on the success of the elementary school site, bilingual

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web pages about high schools in the archdiocese have been added to BuildBoldFutures.org to serve as a one-stop resource, offering families contact information, maps and specific program information about Catholic secondary schools in their zipcode. This effort was supplemented by a two-week radio campaign timed to encourage recruiting and registration for the TACHS exam, the Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools.

Broad-based messaging sets the communications foundation about Catholic education, but enrollments happen on the local school level. Recognizing this, six student recruitment field consultants are positioned to develop and implement customized recruitment and marketing strategies for designated schools with struggling enrollments. They help pastors and principals with on-site assistance, including upgrading marketing materials and websites, sharing “best practices” for managing the enrollment process and raising the school’s profile in the community by organizing grass-roots outreach to prospective parents.

All elementary school marketing and recruitment efforts over the past year were generously funded by a private foundation grant.

In partnership with the University of Notre Dame, the archdiocese is halfway through the Catholic School Advantage Campaign, a two-year initiative to maximize the number of Hispanic children benefitting from a Catholic education. A full-time consultant works with 28 schools in the archdiocese to ensure culturally responsive school environments and increased awareness within the diverse New York Hispanic community.

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Percent of Students from Closed SchoolsEnrolling in Another Catholic School

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Total High School 25,810

Total Elementary School 51,114

TOTAL 76,924

∂ A pastoral approach to families of closing schools was implemented, with a new personalized transition program.

∂ A placement counselor in each school district worked individually with families.

∂ To date, 60 percent of elementary students from closing schools have enrolled in an alternative Catholic school vs. an estimated 25 percent in the past.

*Data as of 2011

www.buildboldfutures.org

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SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLSDr. Timothy McNiff, Ed. D.

CHIEF OF STAFF Mary Kate Blaine

OFFICE MANGERDoreen DePaolis

DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTSManhattanSr. June Clare Tracy, OP., Ed.D.

BronxRoseann Carotenuto

Staten Island Zoilita Herrara

Westchester/PutnamPhilip Gorrasi

Upper CountiesMary Jane Daley

ARCHDIOCESE DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM (ADAPP)Frances Maturo, Director

CATECHIST FORMATION Lucia DiJusto

CHILD NUTRITION AND SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SERVICESEdward Albano, Director

COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETINGFran Davies, Associate Superintendent

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENTDr. Raymond Cummings, Jr., Director

CURRICULUM AND STAFF DEVELOPMENTJoanne DeMizio, Associate Superintendent

DATA COLLECTIONSLillian Valentin, Director

EARLY CHILDHOODConnie McCrory, Director

LEADERSHIP AND RECRUITMENTKathleen Curatolo, Associate Superintendent

MISSION EFFECTIVENESSPhil Gorrasi, Associate Superintendent

NY CATHOLIC SCHOOL ADVANTAGE CAMPAIGNRudy Vargas, University of Notre Dame

PUBLIC POLICY AND STUDENT SERVICESRay Vitiello, Associate Superintendent

LEADERSHIP AND RECRUITMENTShanai Jensen, Associate

RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONLisette Robustelli, Director

SCHOOL BUDGETS AND FINANCE Aileen Debost, Director

SCHOOL FINANCEJohn Coyne, Director

SECONDARY EDUCATIONJoseph Gerics, Ed.D., Associate Superintendent

SIS HELP DESK Oneeka Jordan

SPECIAL EDUCATIONEileen Murtha, Director

STRATEGIC PLANDeirdre Sullivan, Director

STUDENT INFORMATION SERVICES (SIS)Madeline Mitrevski, Assistant Superintendent

STUDENT RECRUITMENTDavid DiCerto, Director

TEACHER PERSONNELSr. Anne Massell, PVBM, Associate Superintendent

TECHNOLOGYSr. Alice Kirk, OP, Director

URBAN EDUCATIONMichael J. Deegan, Associate Superintendent

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