The Vision 2030 Survey New Rochelle’s School Board Doesn’t Want the Rest of New Rochelle to Know About
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 31, 2026) — The New Rochelle Board of Education has finally begun asking the community what it thinks about Vision 2030, its ambitious plan to reorganize the city’s public schools. There’s just one problem: The Board appears far more interested in hearing from people already connected to the school district than from the rest of New Rochelle.
If you don’t have children attending district schools, don’t work for the district, don’t follow Board meetings and don’t subscribe to district communications, there’s a good chance you haven’t heard about the survey. You may not even know that the Board is considering sweeping changes to how New Rochelle educates its children.
That is not a bug, it’s a feature.
I have been covering the City School District of New Rochelle for 20 years. In my experience, the district has a remarkably narrow understanding of what constitutes community engagement. Parents, teachers, administrators, employees and the relatively small group of people who regularly follow Board activities are treated as the community. Everyone else might as well be invisible.
Self-referential engagement is not true community engagement.
