A poorly attended forum with two unopposed candidates for the Croton Board of Education hits some issues, but misses one major concern of parents. [Updated]
With Jeneen Garcia out of the race, Ana Teague and Omar Mayyasi fielded questions sent by parents and others to the Zoom session. Academic standards, a big concern of many parents, were ignored.
Recent history has shown that elections for the Croton-Harmon Board of Education can be fiercely fought and divisive affairs. But this year the school district narrowly escaped having a contested election this coming May 21. Last week, candidate Jeneen Garcia dropped out of the race, telling The Gazette that “as a single mother balancing a full-time job,” she “realized that I am unable to move forward with this commitment…”
That leaves incumbent Board members Ana Teague and Omar Mayyasi unopposed for the two open seats. There is no word that anyone else filed their candidacy by the new deadline of 5 p.m. May 14, and so Teague and Mayyasi were the sole candidates present for a forum co-sponsored by the PTAs of the three Croton-Harmon Schools (for reasons that are not yet clear, the League of Women Voters apparently declined to sponsor the forum at more or less the last minute.)
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