About one-quarter of the city’s community district and high-school superintendents – representing well over 100 years’ experience in Big Apple schools – are going, going, gone under Chancellor Joel Klein’s reorganization.
At least nine of the 37 superintendents are either retiring July 1 or have accepted top jobs elsewhere, a Post survey found.
Bronx High School Superintendent Norman Wechsler confirmed that he’s leaving after 33 years in the city school system.
“I’m going to retire on July 1. It’s been a wonderful run. It’s time to move on,” Wechsler said.
Other superintendents saying bye-bye:
* Michael Johnson, superintendent of Queens’ District 29, will be the new boss of the Albany school system.
* Richard Organisciak, superintendent of alternative high schools, will run the Deer Park, L.I., school system.
* Manhattan High School Superintendent Tony Sawyer will head the Topeka, Kan., school district.
* Betty Rosa, superintendent of Bronx District 8, is leaving – possibly to manage a Florida school district, sources said.
* Cristy Cugini, 75, the Staten Island district’s longtime superintendent, will retire after 44 years in the school system.
* Patricia Romadetto, veteran superintendent of Manhattan’s District 3, covering the Upper West Side and parts of Harlem, submitted her retirement papers after 35 years.
* John Comer, longtime superintendent of Brooklyn’s District 22, announced his retirement.
* Brooklyn High School Superintendent Charles Majors was replaced earlier this year.