Armando Vilaseca Explained
Armando Vilaseca was the former Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Education.[1]
After leaving Cuba in 1964, Vilaseca settled in West New York, New Jersey, a community with a significant Cuban American community. There he attended Memorial High School.[2]
Career
Vilaseca served as a classroom schoolteacher in Georgia, Vermont,[3] before moving on to becoming a school administrator in his role as teaching principal in Reading Elementary School. He continued in this role at Westford Elementary and Middle School, Essex High School for ten years.[1]
He subsequently served as superintendent of the Colchester School District and of the Franklin West Supervisory Union.[1]
Vilaseca served as a government liaison job to the nation, assisting a delegation to represent Vermont's products.
Vilaseca also is a member of the Cuban American Friendship Society [4]
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: About the Vermont Department of Education . 2011-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101109220320/http://education.vermont.gov/new/html/maindept.html . 2010-11-09 . dead .
- Hirsch, Corin. "Lunch Box Diaries; Vermonters recall their school cafeteria cuisine", Seven Days (newspaper), August 31, 2011. Accessed August 2, 2012. "Armando Vilaseca - Vermont education commissioner; I came from Cuba in 1964 and moved to West New York, N.J., an immigrant area that from the 1960s until the 1980s had a huge Cuban immigrant population. My high school, Memorial High School, was probably 70 percent Cuban American..."
- Web site: Q&A: Armando Vilaseca, Vermont Commissioner of Education . Vermont Business Magazine . January 15, 2010 . October 22, 2011 . Smith, Robert .
- Web site: https://www.cubanamericanfriendshipsociety.org/. June 6, 2019.
