The Tuckahoe School Board is working to convince state education officials that the school district’s interim superintendent-principal, Brian McCarthy, has tamed the district’s recent turbulence so effectively that he should be allowed to stay another year.
According to the New York State Education Department, a school district must obtain a waiver for adminstrators if they are already retired from public employment in the state, under age 65 and would earn more than $30,000 from public employment with the state during the calendar year in question. Mr. McCarthy, a retired school administrator who was brought in to manage Tuckahoe last year, meets all three of these standards.
“The process ensures that a retiree—already collecting a public pension—may be selected only where a certified and qualified non-retired person cannot be found to fill... more
According to the New York State Education Department, a school district must obtain a waiver for adminstrators if they are already retired from public employment in the state, under age 65 and would earn more than $30,000 from public employment with the state during the calendar year in question. Mr. McCarthy, a retired school administrator who was brought in to manage Tuckahoe last year, meets all three of these standards.
“The process ensures that a retiree—already collecting a public pension—may be selected only where a certified and qualified non-retired person cannot be found to fill... more
The same people stuck in a perptual bellyaching time warp in action! There is a new Board. Time to move on and cooperatively work to improve Tuckahoe's shameful state test scores for so many years.
Let's keep our eye on the ball - striving for excellent education for our kids, not petty, laughable small town politics for people with too much time on their hands!
Mr. Seaman's responses are a clear misrepresentation of what actually happened.
Your comments are also an unfortunate misrepresentation of the truth. Tuckahoe's state test scores are far from "shameful". What is to be gained by saying so? I would assert that you are perpetuating the very ...more same practices you claim to disdain.
You want to put an end to small town politics, stop advocating for sweeping everything under the rug and then try using your real name on these boards. Everyone here knows who I am.
Past is prologue.
But as soon as they hear something they don't like, they scream louder and longer than anyone else. Just because people like observant don't care about anything beyond their front doors does not mean ...more the rest of us should do the same. When you see a wrong, speak out! Try to make it right. That is what I teach my children.