At the 145th Annual Meeting of the Yonkers Board of Education on May 12, 2026, the Trustees reelected Dr. Rosalba Corrado Del Vecchio and Ms. Gail Burns to serve as president and vice president, respectively. Both will serve one-year terms in their leadership posts.
The Yonkers Board of Education is the official policy making body of the school district.
The Trustees are:
Dr. Rosalba Corrado Del Vecchio
President
Gail Burns
Vice President
Dr. John C. Castanaro
Sheila Greenwald
Amjed I. Kuri
Rosemarie P. Linton
Lorraine Lopez
Arz Raheem
Lawrence R. Sykes, Esq.
Aníbal Soler, Jr.
Superintendent of Schools
The First Board
The Yonkers Board of Education was formed in May 1880 when the New York State legislature approved consolidating the schools. The following year, the Trustees of the Board met to hold an organizational meeting, and to elect officers and adopt a code of bylaws.
In the years since then, the Board of Education has held an Annual Meeting to elect officers from the Trustees, and to adopt what is now known as the Policy Manual.
The first officers of the Board of Education were elected from among the Trustees in 1881. Duncan Smith was elected president and Matthew H. Ellis was elected vice president.
The other Trustees of the Board, all of whom were appointed by Mayor Norton P. Otis, were:
Rudolph Eickemeyer
William F. Cochran
Thomas B. Caulfield
Frederic Shonnard
Rufus Dutton
Peter Mitchell
F.C. Oakley
William H. Thrall
Etheibert Belknap
Frederick A. Back
Charles Lockwood
Michael Mooney
John Thurton