Betty Rosa, former Regents chancellor, named permanent education commissioner
ALBANY — Adhering to an “exhaustive” nationwide research, the state Board of Regents on Monday unanimously appointed Betty A. Rosa as long lasting commissioner of education and president of the University of the Point out of New York, the very first Latina lady to hold the placement.
The commissioner will direct the company and helps the board’s users in carrying out the department’s mission to raise the understanding, skill and chance of all the men and women in New York.
“I’ve regarded Dr. Rosa for decades and her breadth of practical experience, know-how and capacity to function with all folks make her the greatest preference to provide as commissioner,” Chancellor Lester W. Young, Jr. claimed. “As chancellor, Dr. Rosa attained the huge regard of the Board of Regents as a result of her steadfast motivation to all New York’s pupils and collegial tactic to our perform. Through her job as an extraordinary educator, leader, and innovator, she garnered the reverence of the education and learning neighborhood.”
Rosa has served on the Board of Regents considering that 2008 and became the board’s chancellor in 2016. She resigned as chancellor in August to fill in as commissioner when Shannon Tahoe stepped down for a purpose in bigger schooling. Rosa was third person to consider on the commissioner’s career since MaryEllen Elia resigned a yr and a 50 percent back.
Users of the lookup committee stated Rosa’s means to manage the instruction division by way of a time period of unprecedented worries set her aside from all other candidates for the purpose. They noticed that she commanded regard from lawmakers for the duration of the recent legislative finances hearing on instruction.
“My mom employed to say, ‘sometimes you find out that the gold is in your personal back lawn,'” reported Regent Josephine Finn, whose district consists of the Money Area.
Rosa started her occupation as a bilingual paraprofessional, instructor and looking at coordinator in the New York Town educational institutions. She served as an assistant principal and principal in particular instruction. She released an integrated linguistic model to build a multilingual and multicultural faculty for normal and distinctive schooling learners.
In 1998, Rosa was appointed to the position of superintendent of Local community School District 8 in the Bronx and afterwards grew to become senior superintendent of the Bronx. She started a leading-ranked center school throughout that time.
Rosa holds a master’s diploma and a doctorate from Harvard College, and has taught graduate-degree faculty courses. She also holds two other master’s levels, 1 in administration and supervision and the other in bilingual schooling. She attained her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Metropolis Higher education of New York.
“Dr. Rosa emerged as the most certified and distinguished applicant,” Vice Chancellor T. Andrew Brown mentioned. “In every single aspect of her incredible vocation, Dr. Rosa has never wavered from her purpose as an advocate for equity for learners and educators. Dr. Rosa stepped up and delivered balance to the department though it faced great problems as a end result of the pandemic, and I am grateful to have partnered with her during this unprecedented time.”
Schooling and legislative leaders congratulated Rosa on her appointment, citing her long-time advocacy for susceptible pupil populations.
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins referenced Rosa’s target ensuring that college students have obtain to crucial schooling services irrespective of where by they live.
“I appear ahead to doing the job with Dr. Rosa to carry on bettering the quality of our state’s k-12 general public schools and increased education and learning system and to assurance that each individual New York scholar receives the significant-quality education and learning they deserve,” Stewart-Cousins explained in a assertion.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie explained Rosa’s “outstanding reputation as an educator and an advocate blended with her verified observe report as interim commissioner has made her uniquely suited for this part.”
Since getting about as interim commissioner of schooling, Rosa “has fought to guarantee steadiness for our learners and we are extremely grateful for her leadership,” Heastie’s statement reported.
NYSUT President Andy Pallotta referred to as Rosa a “staunch advocate for our schools, students and educators.”
“The leadership she has proven during this pandemic in certain and her collaborative spirit are exactly what we need on the difficult road even now in entrance of us,” he said.
The point out Board of Regents past month unanimously voted longtime Regent Lester W. Younger Jr. as its chancellor, the initially African American to maintain the purpose.
The board on Monday also reported farewell to Brown, an attorney from Rochester, who is leaving the vice-chancellor submit to head up the New York Point out Bar Association.
