Board of Education

  • 2021-2022 Mount Vernon Board of Education

    Trustee

    Term

    Committees

    Adopted School

    Adriane Saunders, President

    2019-2022

    Health Safety & Wellness (Chair)

    Special Education Advisory Council (Chair) & Human Resources

    Williams School
    Parker School

    Warren Mitchell, Vice President

    2019-2022 

    Family and Community Engagement (Chair)

    School Renaming (Chair)

    Holmes School
    Grimes School

    Micah J.B. McOwen

    July 1, 2020- May 17, 2021

    Policy (Chair)
    CTE Committee (Chair)

    Denzel Washington School of the Arts

    Graham School

    Darcy Miller

    2021-2024

    Communications (Chair)

    Audit (Chair)


    Pennington School
    Mount Vernon High School

    Melissa Muñoz Patterson

    2019-2022 

    Budget (Chair)
    Human Resources (Chair)

    Columbus School
    Hamilton School

    Jeffrey Redd

    2020-2023

     
    Family & Community Engagement

     Benjamin Turner Middle School

    Candice Sorensen

    2021-2021

    		 Special Education, (Chair)

    Education

    Wellness

     Traphagen School
    Lincoln School

    Cynthia Turnquest

    2020-2023

     Education (Chair)
    Special Education

     MV STEAM Academy
    Mandela/Zollicoffer School

    Wanda White

    2021-2024 

    Facilities (Chair), Education

    Human Resources

    Rebecca Turner Elementary School

    John Aden Wilson

    2021-2022 (School Year)

    N/A

    N/A

     

    2020-2021 Mount Vernon Board of Education

    Trustee

    Term

    Committees

    Adopted School

    Darcy Miller, President

    2021-2024

     


    Pennington School
    Mount Vernon High School

    Adriane Saunders, Vice President

    2019-2022

     Health Safety & Wellness (Chair)
    Special Education Advisory Council (Chair)

    Williams School
    Parker School

    Candice Sorensen

    2021-2024

    		    
    Micah J.B. McOwen

    July 1, 2020- May 17, 2021

    Policy (Chair)

    Nellie ThorntonPerforming and Visual Arts School (Thornton High School)
    Graham School
    Warren Mitchell 2019-2022  Family and Community Engagement

    Holmes School
    Grimes School
    Melissa Muñoz Patterson

    2019-2022 

    Audit (Chair)

    Columbus School
    Hamilton School
    Jeffrey Redd

    2020-2023

    		    
    Cynthia Turnquest

    2020-2023

     

     
    Wanda White

    2021-2024 

    Facilities (Chair), Education

    Rebecca Turner Elementary School

    Maame Forson

    		 2019-2020 (School Year)

    N/A

    N/A

    2019 2020 Board of Trustees photo

    2019-2020 Mount Vernon Board of Education

    Trustee

    Term

    Committees

    Adopted School

    Arlene Torres, President

    2017-2020

    Budget (Chair)

    Traphagen School
    Lincoln School

    Darcy Miller, Vice President

    2018-2021

    Facilities (Chair),Policy

    Pennington School
    Mount Vernon High School

    Dr. Serigne M. Gningue

    May 22, 2019- June 30, 2020 (Balance of unexpired term of Stanley Russo)

    Education (Chair)

    MV STEAM Academy
    Micah J.B. McOwen

    2018-2021

    Policy (Chair)

    Nellie ThorntonPerforming and Visual Arts School (Thornton High School)
    Graham School
    Warren Mitchell 2019-2022  Family and Community Engagement

    Holmes School
    Grimes School
    Melissa Muñoz Patterson

    2019-2022 

    Audit (Chair)

    Columbus School
    Hamilton School
    Adriane Saunders

    2019-2022

    Health Safety & Wellness (Chair)
    Special Education Advisory Council (Chair)

    Williams School
    Parker School
    Wanda White

    2018-2021 

    Facilities (Chair), Education

    Rebecca Turner Elementary School

    Israel Williams

    2017-2020

    Student Activities (Chair)

    Benjamin Turner Middle School

    Nicholas Justino
    Student Trustee

    October 1, 2019- June 30, 2020

    N/A

    N/A
     
    In recognition of the importance of building and maintaining relationships with school based staff the President of the Board of Education will appoint individual Trustees to each school in the district.
     
     
     

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What is a Board of Education?

  • The Board of Education is the official policy-making body of the school district, and is comprised of nine members, elected by the public, who serve three-year terms of office without paid compensation. 

    The areas of Board responsibility include:
    • Exercising educational leadership and drafting policies for the effective operation of the Mount Vernon City School District.
    • Employing the Superintendent of Schools
    • Confirming appointments of administrators, teachers and other district staff members
    • Setting goals for educational standards
    • Adopting a yearly budget and authorizing certain expenditures
    • Expressing and representing the views of the community in matters affecting educational programs and needs of the community.
     
    The Board of Education works in concert with the Superintendent of Schools and his cabinet to discharge these varied and necessary responsibilities.