YCSD  Celebrates School Board Recognition Week

We recently celebrated School Board Recognition Week (October 17-21) by honoring the seven members of the Yorktown Central School District Board of Education. These dedicated volunteers have devoted years of service to the school community.

Throughout their tenures, the District has received national awards and honors, expanded programs and extracurricular activities, and made crucial investments in school facilities and grounds while maintaining a high level of fiscal responsibility.

Board members are meticulous in their approach, whether it requires going line-by-line through a nearly 600-page policy guidebook or poring over extensive financial statements. Appropriately, an external auditor offered glowing remarks about the financial state of YCSD at the October 24 school board meeting — the same night that the school board members were recognized by the District.

Superintendent Dr. Ron Hattar described their leadership as being “child-centered, sensitive to taxpayers, and responsive to student needs.”

“On behalf of the District office team, our administrators, faculty, and staff, we say thank you to the Yorktown Central School District Board of Education,” Dr. Hattar said.

Today, the Yorktown Central School District boasts 70 co-curricular clubs, 60 athletic teams, and a dozen elective courses. Under the board’s leadership, the District’s renowned arts and science programs have been complemented by an engineering program. The board also supported the creation of the first-ever robotics and boys volleyball teams.

The school board has worked collaboratively over the years with many parent-teacher organizations. As a token of their appreciation, the Board of Education trustees were presented with a special gift from Ron Fedele, president of the Council of District PTSAs. Each member received a laptop case with the phrase, “Better Than Normal,” a nod to the District’s commitment its 3,400-plus students deserve better than a return to a pre-pandemic “normal.”