Former New Rochelle School Business Official Hired as Superintendent of Tuxedo Schools

Written By: Robert Cox

TUXEDO, NY — Jeffrey T. White will be the next Superintendent of the Tuxedo Union Free School District, an award-winning and top-rated school district located in Tuxedo, NY in Orange County.

At a Special Meeting of the Tuxedo Board of Education tonight, the Board votes unanimously to approve White’s contract. He is expected to start in his new position on July 1, 2021, under a three-year contract.

Jeff White, a Certified Public Accountant, is currently Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations for the Copiague School District.

White served as a highly successful Assistant Superintendent for Business & Administration in New Rochelle from 2015 to 2018.

Before New Rochelle, White was Assistant Superintendent for Business, Purchasing Agent and District Clerk in the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District,

White was Fiscal Administrator, New York State Education Department, and then appointed by the Commissioner of Education as financial administrator to oversee the first state takeover of a New York school district. In earlier roles, he held the same position in the Cold Spring Harbor Central School District as in Monroe-Woodbury and was School Business Administrator and Purchasing Agent in the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District. Mr. White is a candidate for a doctoral degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and holds an M.S.Ed. degree in school administration from Long Island University, as well as M.B.A. in accounting and B.S. in Finance degrees from St. John’s University.