Superintendent's Message

Greetings to All!

As the Superintendent of the West New York School District, I’d like to welcome you to the new school year 2012-13.  As I visited the schools during our first month of opening, I enjoyed watching our students in their nicely pressed uniforms, new backpacks, and faces full of excitement.  The same commitment, motivation and spark was evident in our teachers and staff.  I would like to thank all that participated in the preparation of our schools and our programs over the summer. 

Our most exhilarating accomplishment was the grand opening of our new West New York Public School Number Three, which will provide more than 700 students in Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth Grade with an educational facility that will foster generations of lifelong learners.  This new Public School Number Three is a 110,120 square foot facility that includes 42 general and special education classrooms, a gymnasium, an auditorium, science labs, a music room, small group instructional rooms, computer labs, art rooms, Promethean boards in most classrooms, and a cafeteria built to accommodate healthy gourmet meals for our students.   

Redistricting took place this summer in order to alleviate overcrowding in our schools, hence creating more balanced classes for our students. 

Once again, on behalf of our Central Office, Cabinet and the Board of Education Trustees, I invite you to explore our ever-changing and progressive website filled with endless information, resources, and great accomplishments that reflect and support our mission of striving to provide every child with an opportunity to excel and enjoy a happy and successful future. 

We continue to maintain and expand our contemporary 21st century classrooms offering our students an opportunity to learn through the use of “cutting edge” technology like Promethean boards, laptops and iPads. 

To nourish and continue to support our multicultural environment, we incorporate programs and activities throughout the year that teach our students to be proud of their heritage and who they are.  Our School Anti-bullying Committees continue to gather and formulate strategies to protect our students and raise their level of tolerance and respect. 

Our School District continues to house six elementary schools, Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth grade, one middle school, one high school, two stand-alone early childhood buildings and fourteen private provider settings for three and four year old students. 

Some of recent accomplishments are the following:

• Based on the Quality Single Accountability Continuum ( QSAC) district performance review ( DPR ) on September 5, 2012 the State Board of Education certified the West New York School District as a high performing district

• Hired new highly qualified teachers and paraprofessionals with college credits

• Implemented the Breakfast Program in all elementary schools whereby students receive a working breakfast in their classrooms

• Three consecutive years of perfect financial audits

• Updated Crisis Manuals

• All policies on-line

• Purchase of two additional school buses to expand district transportation services to special education students housed in out-of-district schools

• Expansion of our Saturday Academy classes for grades three through six in the areas of Language Arts and Math

• Restructuring of our Gifted and Talented Program to best meet the needs of our advanced learners

• Expansion of our Special Education In-district Program including classes for

• Pre-Kindergarten disabled and children with autism

• Adoption of research based Teacher Evaluation Framework, the Danielson Model and implementation of professional development to support state mandated plan

• Continuation of in-district monthly Professional Learning Seminars provided to all staff for professional growth in a variety of areas with a focus on the implementation of the “Danielson Model” for Teacher Evaluations  

To see more accomplishments, please go to www.wnyschools.net. 

Our number one priority continues to be the well-being and success of all of our West New York students.  In order to pursue this goal, we need to establish powerful and meaningful relationships with our parents and community so that together we can protect our children and their opportunities for learning and becoming life-long citizens.

Sincerely,

John Fauta

Superintendent of Schools