New Elementary School Principals May Be Named This Week

This week the community may learn who will be named as replacements for the into different roles in the district. 

Last month in front of a large audience of parents who protested the transfers, the voted to move Principal Lesa Brinker back to the art classrooms and Principal Peter O’Hare to an assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction position.

Because the board and administration can not discuss matters of personnel, details were not given in reference to Brinker and O'Hare. Superintendent Mark Porto had indicated that the moves had to do with the vision foreseen for the district.

Porto stated that night that he hoped to be able to appoint replacements for both school principal positions by June 21. The Board of Education will conduct its public meeting that night at 8 p.m. Patch will have more on the details of that meeting later this week.

Also coming up this week, the Hasbrouck Heights High School Class of 2012 will graduate Friday, June 22 at 8 p.m. at the Bergen Academies auditorium in Hackensack. The high school graduation will be preceded by the Middle School graduation which begins at 5 p.m. 

Stay tuned for more details on coverage.

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