JENNIFER FARNSWORTH The Leader-Herald
JOHNSTOWN The HFM BOCES Board of Education met twice this past month to take a look at the 2021-22 budget and to welcome a new administrator in response to the recently announced departure of Deputy Superintendent Lorraine Hohenforst, who will retire in August after 32 years with the district.
The board met last week where they officially welcomed Aaron Bochniak as Hohenforst’s replacement effective Sept. 1. They approved a five-year contract for Bochniak to serve as the assistant superintendent for BOCES’ Operations and Component District Services. Bochniak, 47, comes to the district as the current acting superintendent for the Schenectady City School District. Bochniak chose to not participate in Schenectady’s search for a permanent superintendent and instead decided to pursue the open position with HFM BOCES. A native of Amsterdam, he said he was excited to return to the area where he grew up. He comes to the position with 10 years
Schenectady school leader leaving as district poised to search for replacement
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SCHENECTADY – Acting Superintendent Aaron Bochniak is leaving the district over the summer and going back to his roots.
Bochniak announced at Wednesday night’s virtual Board of Education meeting that he had accepted a job as an assistant superintendent at the Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery (HFM) Board of Education. His last day is Aug. 31.
The agenda for that district’s HFM BOE meeting indicates that the panel approved a five-year deal beginning Sept. 1 for Bochniak to serve as the assistant superintendent for BOCES’ Operations and Component District Services.
His impending departure comes as Schenectady school leaders are poised to begin searching for a superintendent again after contract negotiations with their preferred candidate, Pedro Roman, recently fell through. Roman is an assistant superintendent in the Newburgh Enlarged City School district in Orange Coun