SAR Executive Director Debra May; Teach NYS Regional Field Director Davida Fried; Teach NYS Executive Director Sydney Altfield; Assemblymember and Committee on Education Chair Michael Benedetto; SAR Academy Head of School Rabbi Binyamin Krauss; SAR Parent and Teach NYS Network Ambassador Avi Spira Network Ambassadors Program Lead Campus Visits for Legislators to Foster Awareness of Nonpublic School Education Riverdale, N.Y. - Salanter Akiba Riverdale (SAR) and lay leaders representing Teach NYS, an education advocacy group and division of the Orthodox Union’s Teach Coalition, recently hosted Assemblyman and Chair of the Committee on Education Michael R. Benedetto at his very first visit to the school. Assemblyman Benedetto was accompanied by Avi Spira, a member and grassroots advocate for Teach NYS. As part of its advocacy efforts, Teach NYS coordinates visits by local legislators to Jewish schools so they can learn, in pe