Superintendent outlines strategic framework, staffing and curriculum priorities ahead of 2025-26 budget

Superintendent (S7) told the Mamaroneck Union Free School District Board of Education that 15 months of community engagement and internal review produced a strategic framework that will drive the district's 2025-26 budget priorities.

"The core tenets of personalization, expertise, and mentorship" emerged from the work, the superintendent said, and the administration is aligning staffing and course offerings to those goals. The superintendent said the district plans to add four high-school courses next September: AP Computer Science Principles, AP Art History, a cybersecurity elective with an AP component option, and AP Psychology.

The superintendent described a multi-step principal search for the district middle school (HOMICS), saying the process had moved from 17 initial candidates through successive rounds and that "we are still on track to identify a final candidate by the middle of March." He emphasized that hiring and course expansion require additional staff to meet program and compliance needs, and that those staffing requests will be part of the upcoming budget presentation.

On technology, the superintendent said the district is building toward a K–12 data-warehousing system to centralize student information currently scattered across local systems. He described a plan that mixes off-the-shelf packages and custom integration, with teacher training and phased rollout if the board approves funding.

The superintendent also noted a pilot of Gaggle, a web-monitoring tool intended to provide an online-safety net for students and to flag searches related to self-harm; the administration plans to expand the pilot across the district as part of broader network-safety measures.

Board members asked specifics during a question-and-answer session. The superintendent said AP Psychology will start in 10th grade, the cybersecurity course will initially be a senior elective with AP possibilities, and the data-warehousing work is expected to begin if funded after board approval and to grow over subsequent years. He cautioned that any spending that would exceed the tax cap requires careful justification to taxpayers and a long-term plan to sustain services.

The administration said Sylvia will present detailed budget figures at the next board meeting and the superintendent will bring the full budget to the March board session for formal consideration.