Rockland/Westchester Journal News
Yonkers announced its next superintendent of schools Tuesday afternoon while two storms raged: a downpour causing several districts, including Yonkers, to cancel after school activities, and a flurry of headlines about antisemitic comments made at a high school girls basketball game last week.
Despite both, Yonkers officials announced Anibal Soler Jr. will take the reigns May 1 of New York’s third largest school district, concluding a nationwide search began in July. Soler has been superintendent of the Schenectady City School District since 2021.
“I come to you looking forward to continuing to build on the success that is Yonkers,” Soler said during a news conference after the Yonkers school board approved his hiring. “I will come, I will look to listen, I will look to learn, and learn about what makes Yonkers a special place. And I look forward to continuing to elevate that work.”
His contract will run through June 30, 2028.
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