Tenure Awarded to 22 Clarkstown School Employees

The Clarkstown School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to award tenure to 22 employees.  The staffer receiving tenure once their probation period is completed included 14 teachers, seven teaching assistants and Assistant Superintendent for Business, Facilities and Fiscal Management John LaNave, whose name was added to the list at the meeting.

The teachers, their subjects and schools are:

• Danielle Bovelle-Jackson, Foreign Languages, Link Elementary School
• Deidre Conover, Science, Clarkstown South High School
• Stacy DeMasi, Mathematics, Felix Festa Middle School
• Brian Donaldson, Health, Felix Festa
• Christopher Dwyer, Social Studies, Clarkstown South
• Jennifer Grundstein, Psychologist, Link Elementary
• Joseph Harley, Special Education, Clarkstown North High School
• Jessica Hoey, Science, Clarkstown North
• Jacqueline LeBlanc Special Education, Clarkstown South
• Mary Patella, Mathematics, Clarkstown North
• Lindsay Popilskis, Psychologist, Birchwood School
• Danielle Raskin, Special Education, Clarkstown South
• Dara Ritter, Psychologist, New City Elementary School
• Cheryl Weitzner, Special Education, Clarkstown North

The teaching assistants and their schools are:

• Maureen Alden, New City
• Rebecca Barclay, Felix Festa
• Ellen Gorman, West Nyack Elementary School
• Jeremy Login, Clarkstown South
• Laura Riccoboni, Felix Festa
• Stephanie Turselli, Strawtown Elementary School
• Randy Wald, New City

The board voted to table a policy entitled “Elementary School (K-5) Class Size” and decided to have the superintendent review it further with principals, teachers and teaching assistants for possible revision. The board began discussing the policy in October 2012.