Board Of Education Student Delegates

From left, seated: South Middle School Delegates Ella Wang, Joelle Siong Sin and Roshan Varughese; and North Middle Delegates Adam Sanders, Sofia Shafizadeh and Jason Mei. Standing: Assistant Superintendent–Secondary Dr. Stephen Lando, Superintendent Dr. Teresa Prendergast, Board Trustee Susan Healy, Village School Delegate Kylar Hoge, South High Delegates Elina Malamed, Rachel Schneider, Perry Choo, Sean Na and William Zheng, North High Delegate Alan Chau, Board President Barbara Berkowitz, and Board Trustees Donald Ashkenase and Monique Bloom. Not photographed: Board Vice President Lawrence Gross and North High Delegates Julia Hackman, Joseph Harooni and Eric Sedaghat. (Photo by Irwin Mendlinger)

Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education Student Delegates, representing the district’s secondary schools, were introduced to the community at the October board meeting. Selected by their schools, these non-voting delegates, are encouraged to express opinions about educational and student matters, voice school issues or concerns and take pertinent board agenda items back to their respective schools.

Board President Barbara Berkowitz and Superintendent Teresa Prendergast thanked the students for their service and for volunteering their time to represent their schools at board of education meetings.

The board has been in the vanguard regarding student participation in school affairs, initiating student delegates in 1975, a practice the state did not require until 2005.

—Submitted by Great Neck Public Schools