Standing L to R Theresa Bargiel, Jackie DeMuro, Herbert Heaney, Laura Ketchum, Albert Foster.

Sitting L to R Cathleen Georgeou (VP) Dr. Otnisky (Superintendent), Cecelia Perumal (Business Administrator), Beatrice Ruane (President).

Board At A Glance

The Maywood Board of Education is an elected governmental unit within the Borough of Maywood. The Board is responsible for conducting the affairs of the school district. The seven members of the Board of Education are volunteers, elected by the citizens of Maywood.

The major function of the Board is to formulate policies to provide a broad guide for action by school personnel so that the schools may operate efficiently. The Board's responsibility is not to run the schools, but to see that the schools are well run.

The Superintendent of Schools is the Board's chief executive office. The Superintendent is given the responsibility of directing the operations of the schools within the policies set forth by the Board. The Superintendent sits on the Board of Education and has the right to speak on all education matters but may not vote. Individual Board members have no authority when the Board is not in session, except in specific instances when such authority may be delegated by the whole Board. Only the Board of Education as a whole has this kind of decision-making authority and not individual members.

School board members are responsible to the State government, as well as the local community. In essence, Board members are State officials who act at the local level to meet the education needs of the community.

Your Board is committed to:

-Conscientiously deciding how to use the district's financial resources.
-Ensuring accountability to the local community, including personnel, programmatic and fiscal accountability.
-Providing community leadership and advocacy at the local, state and national levels on behalf of all students and public education.