Oneida Board of Education announces superintendent finalists
Sapna Kollali
The Oneida City School District Board of Education will take the next steps in its search for a new superintendent of schools when its three finalists visit the district on May 3-5.
During the course of the visits, the candidates will meet with representatives of various stakeholder groups, including administrative leaders, instructional and non-instructional staff, students, parents and community representatives. They will also tour some of the district’s facilities and learn more about the culture of the community.
Following the visits, the Board of Education will select a final candidate for further consideration. The board anticipates appointing a new superintendent around June 1.
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Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-New Hartford, defeated former Rep. Anthony Brindisi, D-Utica, by 109 votes in the November election in the 22nd Congressional District.Staff and provided photos
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A coalition of New York voting rights advocates is urging Oneida County lawmakers to set higher standards before hiring new election commissioners to replace those who resigned last week.
Rose Grimaldi and Carolann Cardone left their commissioner’s posts after a legal battle in the 22nd Congressional District election exposed a series of failures by the Oneida County Board of Elections.
One of the county executives in New York’s 22
nd Congressional District is asking that the county’s Board of Elections Commissioners be removed over botched vote-counting.
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Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Junior has sent a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo asking for the action after Oneida fell in the middle of the marathon vote-count that finally put Congresswoman Claudia Tenney back in Washington, close to 100 days after the polls closed in November.
Oneida was the last county allowed to certify votes after having to review and re-review ballots and procedures. While other counties bumbled the process of counting paper ballots in the race between Democrat incumbent Anthony Brindisi and former Congresswoman, Republican Claudia Tenney, Oneida lingered in the process with issues involving voters who had registered by the deadline with the Department of Motor Vehicles but were not recorded as registered by the board of elections and notations on ballo