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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Fort Lee Principals Throw Support Behind Amato for Superintendent

Fort Lee's administrative group publicly gives support to Dr. Sharon Amato, asking Board to appoint her Superintendent of Schools.

Speaking on behalf of Fort Lee's Administrative Group, Fort Lee High School Principal Priscilla Church and School No. 1 Principal Rosemary Giacomelli read a statement to the Board of Education placing unanimous support behind Acting Superintendent Dr. Sharon Amato in consideration for her appointment as Superintendent of Schools. Before an audience filled with teachers and administrators, Church stressed to the Board that the Fort Lee School district has been in transition since the departures of Dr. Alan Sugarman and Dr. John Richardson. Since they left the district, "Their long tenure in the district and steady course has not been recaptured," Church said. She emphasized that it was their personal investment in the community that …

Ryan

9:18 pm on Saturday, April 6, 2013

Every candidate should sit before every parent in Fort Lee for an interview... oh wait don't you elect representatives to speak on your behalf?   more ›

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Fort Lee Superintendent to Take Leave of Absence Until January

With Steven Engravalle out for the next two months on medical leave, Sharon Amato will run the day-to-day operations of the Fort Lee Public School District, serving as Interim Superintendent after board approval Monday.

The Fort Lee Board of Education Monday approved a nearly two-month leave of absence for Superintendent Steven Engravalle for medical reasons and appointed Sharon Amato Interim Superintendent of Schools during his absence. Engravalle’s leave of absence is effective Nov. 7 and continues until Jan. 2, 2013, according to the walk-in resolution the school board approved 5-0 with one abstention. Amato, whose status as interim superintendent is effective for the same period and was approved unanimously by the board, called the appointment “truly an honor and a privilege.” “I have spent more time in my life working in the Fort Lee schools than I’ve done anything else so you certainly have my commitment to the students and the members of the …

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Mike R.

8:44 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012

"The School Board had made some poor decisions in selecting Superintendents." --Thomas A Bennett That gets my nomination for understatement of the century! It's obviously the school board that's the underlying problem, by hiring a long parade of losers. They bear full responsibility for the Engravallle debacle, the Bandlow debacle, the Collabro debacle, and for the fact that, given their record …   more ›

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