Bedford Central School District

Bedford BOE Roundup: Incumbents Return, Interim Pound Ridge ES Principal Appointed

The Bedford Central School District Board of Education has officially started the 2011-12 school year by picking up where it left off.

Thursday morning, owners Mark and Eric Karle Chernis, each of which has been re-elected in May for further three-year terms, were each sworn in at the beginning of the meeting. Superintendent Jere Hochman, who received a contract extension, was also sworn Leadership Council is the same as Susan Elion Wollin was voted as the new president with Chernis back again to be vice president.

Once the board has been set, they took votes on topics ranging reorganization of the missions committee of board members, administrators to take secondary roles, the price of school meals.

Notable items include:

Appointed acting director Gembka Pound Ridge

Not immediately available a suitable replacement for the former permanent Pound Ridge Elementary School Principal Peter Politi, the board voted to appoint Timothy Gembka to fill the role on an interim basis for next year.

Gembka, who is retired, previously served as the main starting with children, a Brooklyn charter school. Before that, he served as an elementary school in Ossining.

Gembka says he is "very excited and enthusiastic about bringing my skills and knowledge" for the neighborhood.

The appointment came after an unsuccessful search for permanent principal in the spring, in which more than 200 candidates participated.

"I have not found the right match through this process," Hochman said in an interview.

Morrow, Shady, was appointed to the Audit Committee

The Board voted unanimously to appoint Erin Morrow, Bedford Hills, for a term of two years of the audit committee of the district until June 30, 2013. Morrow background includes work in public accounting firm Grant Thornton, with the risk and compliance experience.

"She is as perfect as it gets for the job," said Chernis.

Amal, a member of Shady was extended to a period of one year, until June 30, 2012.

Teacher evaluations, collaborative input, discussed

In the report of the Board of Directors Hochman, he talked about how administrators work behind the scenes to prepare the evaluation system APPR new mandate for teachers and principals, he calls the "eat as it was billed to be.

Officials Make More Changes to Bedford Schools Spending Plan ...

"The revenue is estimated at just and expenses, mainly the rising costs of health claims are higher," said Betz.

The current tax levy is projected to be just over $ 105 million, but this number assumes that $ 4.4 million will be used to maintain the sample below.

Betz said he would strengthen the numbers in the coming weeks. Districts must use an emergency budget if their proposals were defeated twice by a public vote. The budget caps spending by 4 percent or 120 percent of the index of consumer prices. The lower of two figures is used as the cap.Districts are also forbidden to have an emergency budget that is more than a proposal that has just been defeated by the public.

People should just stop paying taxes and to seek further education in private schools and the school or at home. The government should not be in the business to educate or to fund programs that create debt and difficulties for families. It was my first hand experience that the educational process creates homelessness, families of bleeding from the hard earned equity for some can live a luxurious life. It permeates particularly through NYS.Since the 1970s, I believe that schools are still under "construction" to date. The quality of education does not provide or find employment for its graduates. And college graduates are thrown into debt by the same practices. The community suffers, the family suffers from an endless funding, grants, debt Ponzi overtaxed system. Stop paying people!

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