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4 unusual facts about New York City Board of Education


Caroline Beaumont Zachry

In 1942 she was appointed director of the Bureau of Child Guidance of the New York City Board of Education that lasted until her death three years later in 1945.

Gregory William Frux

From 1983 to 1989 Frux worked as an Architect for the New York City Board of Education (BOE) designing school additions and modernizations.

Middle College Program

It opened in 1974 as an alternative high school under the joint auspices of the New York City Board of Education and LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York.

Worden Day

She also ran a print shop for reading books for the New York City Board of Education.


Cesar A. Perales

In 1974, the consent decree issued in PRLDEF’s suit Aspira v. New York City Board of Education became central to the United States’ establishment of bilingual education programs in schools across the country.

Odimumba Kwamdela

Kwamdela taught in for the New York City Board of Education as a high school teacher of Writing and Graphic Arts, serving for several years in the roughest schools in the world, one for adolescent offenders located in infamous, volatile Rikers Island Jail.


see also

Ademola Rasaq Seriki

Upon completion of his studies, Demola Seriki became a licensed teacher with the New York City Board of Education under their employment at the JFK Memorial High School, Walton High School, and the Springfield High School.

Miles O'Brien

Miles M. O'Brien (1852–1910), banker and former president of the New York City Board of Education