Contact Key NY Education Decisionmakers

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NY State Elected & Appointed Education officials

Contact Governor Hochul

NYS Education Commissioner Betty Rosa: commissioner@nysed.gov

The Board of Regents comprises 17 members elected by the State Legislature for 5 year terms to oversee educational policy in New York State.

Regents Chancellor Lester W. Young at Regent.Young@nysed.gov

Regents Vice Chancellor Josephine Finn Regent.Finn@nysed.gov

Other Board of Regents members: 

Regent.Tilles@nysed.gov ; Regent.Cea@nysed.gov; Regent.Norwood@nysed.gov; Regent.Cashin@nysed.gov ; Regent.Cottrell@nysed.gov; Regent.Collins@nysed.gov; Regent.Wills@nysed.gov ; Regent.Chin@nysed.gov ; Regent.Reyes@nysed.gov ;  Regent.Hakanson@nysed.gov ; Regent.Mittler@nysed.gov  ;  Regent.Wills@nysed.gov; Regent.Tanikawa@nysed.gov; Regent.Ferrer@nysed.gov; Regent.Catania@nysed.gov; Regent.Hale@nysed.gov

Contact the Regents Board Secretary

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie: 518-455-3791, speaker@assembly.state.ny.us

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins: 518-455-2585, MajorityLeaderCommunications@nysenate.gov

Assembly Education Committee Chair Michael Benedetto: 518-455-5296, benedettom@nyassembly.gov

Senate Education Chair Shelley B. Mayer: 518-455-2031, smayer@nysenate.gov

Senate NYC Education Chair John Liu: 518-455-2210;  liu@nysenate.gov

NYC Elected & Appointed Education officials

Contact Mayor Adams: webform here; you can also call 311.
Email Chancellor Banks : nycchancellor@schools.nyc.gov
Email NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams : SpeakerAdams@council.nyc.gov

Click here to find your City Council member

See the Panel for Educational Policy webpage with schedule of meetings, contracts and bios of members. The PEP is the NYC school board and consists of 23 voting members:  five  borough president appointees; five elected by CEC presidents (one from each borough), and a supermajority of 13 members appointed by the mayor.

As of 4/16/23, eight PEP members did not have their email addresses listed the DOE website; the others listed below were gathered via twitter.  One member’s email still unavailable:.

Email PEP members:  ABogad@schools.nyc.gov; aong3@schools.nyc.gov;  gward7@schools.nyc.gov ; gregfaulkner1@gmail.com; agreen419@gmail.com ; GChacon@schools.nyc.gov; ksalasramirez@schools.nyc.gov;  msapp@schools.nyc.gov; MKenley@schools.nyc.gov; MDienstag@schools.nyc.gov; naveed@cs.columbia.edu; PSadearnold@schools.nyc.gov; sgibson11@schools.nyc.gov; tazad4@schools.nyc.gov Lilly.chan@revlon.com; Khari.edwards@gmail.com; Effiz4@yahoo.com; Anthony_giordano@yahoo.com; avazgarcia@gmail.com; cabrera.chantel@gmail.com

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