Officers/Advisory Committee
The CSA Constitution calls for CSA to elect 10 officers: a President, an Executive Vice President, a First Vice President, Secretary, the Treasurer and five Vice Presidents. The 10 officers are elected by in-service members and serve terms of three years.
The Constitution also calls for an Advisory Committee comprised of all the elected officers of CSA, the Special Vice President for Retirees and three members-at-large selected from the Executive Board by the officers. The committee represents the varied membership of CSA, provides advice to the union leaders, and approves resolutions and contracts before they are put before the Executive Board and the general membership. The Advisory Committee meets twice a month except for during the months of July and August.
Elections for officers are held every three years in the fall and terms begin Feb. 1 of the following year. The next CSA election is in the fall of 2012. Click HERE to download a copy of the CSA Constitution.
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Secretary
Mark Cannizzaro
Principal, I.S. 75, D-31, Staten Island
(718) 356-0130, ext. 1412
mcanniz@schools.nyc.gov
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Vice Presidents
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Richard Oppenheimer,
Director of Family Day Care
Nuestros Ninos DCC, Brooklyn
(718) 963-1555
roppenheimer@nyc.rr.com |
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Nancy Russo
Assistant Principal
Bronx Adult Learning Center
(718) 662-3000
nonnieor@aol.com
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Henry Rubio
Principal
A. Philip Randolph Campus HS
(212) 926-0113
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Members at Large
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Sandy DiTrapani
Assistant Principal, PS 177, D-21, Brooklyn
(718) 375-9506
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Ernest Logan – President
 Ernest A. Logan worked for nearly 25 years in the NYC public schools, many of them as a CSA member, before taking a leave of absence to join CSA’s staff in 1997 as a field service representative. Rising through the ranks, he was elected President in November 2006 by acclamation and again in November 2009. His second three-year term as CSA’s 13th President began on Feb. 1, 2010.
Mr. Logan, the 11th of 13 children, was born in Harlem, and raised in East New York, to a family that valued education. His father, a college graduate and trained engineer, died when Mr. Logan was 8, a huge loss for the Logan family emotionally but not spiritually; the older Mr. Logan, and his wife, had imbued their son with the importance of a college degree, family and faith, and his mother kept those values alive for her children despite the hardships they faced.
Mr. Logan remained focused on the future, graduating from Franklin K. Lane High School in 1969 and SUNY Cortland in 1973. He attended Baruch College/CUNY and received his master’s degree in education.
He began teaching English at PS 224, D-19, Brooklyn, soon after graduating from SUNY Cortland and within five years, he was a curriculum writer for the Office of Curriculum and Development. In 1983, he became the Assistant Principal at JHS 263, D-23, Brooklyn, and in 1991, he was appointed as Principal of I.S. 55, D-23.
As Principal, he represented his CSA colleagues as the District 23 Chair from 1993 until the fall of 1997 when he became CSA’s Director of Community School Districts and worked in the field enforcing the contract and protecting his colleagues’ legal rights. In March 2000, the Executive Board chose Mr. Logan as First Vice President to fill a vacancy created when Donald Singer, then-President of CSA, moved to work fulltime at the American Federation of School Administrators, the national union. A few months later, running with Jill Levy, he was elected Executive Vice President, a position he retained through the 2003 election. When Ms. Levy chose not to run in 2006, Mr. Logan won the presidency in an unopposed election. Mr. Logan is also the Treasurer of AFSA, and, as a member of the General Executive Board, chairs its legislative committee.
As CSA President, he secured a contract for his Department of Education members that provided substantial salary increases and numerous reforms including a rating system for Principals that is tied into school performance and specific leadership competencies. Mr. Logan has repeatedly called for high standards and accountability from his members, and does not accept complaints that “the job is too tough.” Mr. Logan has forged relationships with city and state officials, understanding the importance of “bridge building” as he calls it, to secure legislation, resources and policies that enable CSA members to perform their jobs to the best of their abilities.
In addition to his responsibilities at the union, Mr. Logan is a board member for New Visions for Public Schools and the NY Research Alliance. He belongs to numerous organizations including St. John's University’s Phi Delta Kappa chapter, the NY Alliance of Black School Educators, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the NY Academy of Public Education, 100 Black Men, and is a life member of the Association of Black Educators of NY. Most recently, Mr. Logan became a member of the Education Equality Project, founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton and NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.
He has served on the board of the Brownsville Community Development Corporation and is a deacon at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Harlem, where he also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
He has received numerous awards from labor and education groups, most recently from the Ridgewood Democratic Club in June 2009 as a Labor Leader of the Year. Mr. Logan and his wife, Beatrice, a high school guidance counselor, have established the Ernest A. Logan Scholarship at SUNY Cortland, which provides tuition assistance for NYC public school students.
Peter McNally– Executive Vice President
 Peter McNally was elected Executive Vice President of CSA in November 2006 after nearly six years of service as the union’s First Vice President. He was re-elected in 2009. As an elementary school Principal, Mr. McNally realized the importance of ongoing professional development for supervisors and administrators in relation to student achievement, and at CSA, he has been deeply involved in the union’s professional development branch, the Executive Leadership Institute.
In addition, Mr. McNally also serves as President of the NYS Federation of School Administrators and Chairman of the NYS Administrators Consortium, two groups that lobby Albany on behalf of administrators and supervisors statewide.
A native of Queens, Mr. McNally received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Queens College and his professional degree from Fordham University. He began teaching in 1976 in general education and then worked with children with emotional problems. He also worked as a teacher trainer in the Queens Regional Office for Special Education. Mr. McNally became a Supervisor of Special Education in 1986, working in District 24 for four years before his appointment as Principal of PS 229, D-24, Queens in 1989, where he remained until his election as CSA’s First Vice President in May 2000.
Prior to his election as First Vice President in 2000, Mr. McNally served for nine years on the Executive Board of the NYC Elementary Schools Principals Association (NYCESPA), two as Vice President and for several months as President-Elect, and in doing so, became intimately involved in the issues and concerns among NYCESPA’s members citywide. In May 2000, the CSA Executive Board elected him as one of the union’s Vice Presidents (to fill a vacancy), and shortly thereafter, in the fall, he was elected First Vice President on President Jill Levy’s slate.
Mr. McNally has received numerous awards including the NYC Board of Education for District 24 "Educator of the Year" Award. He is a member of the St. John’s University Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa and the NY Academy of Public Education. He also serves as a Trustee of the CSA Welfare Fund.
Over the years, Mr. McNally has made numerous presentations to state and national organizations including at several annual conventions held by the National Association of Elementary School Principals. Mr. McNally was a member of the Executive Committee of the Principal Leadership Network at Brown University for five years, and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the School Leaders Network. He is also a frequent visitor to Albany where he testifies before legislative committees on professional development and other bills that affect education statewide.
Dr. Randi Herman – First Vice President
 Dr. Randi Herman was elected CSA's First Vice President in November 2006 and reelected in 2009, both times on President Ernest A. Logan’s slate. Her second term began Feb. 1, 2010.
Prior to her election, Dr. Herman had served as a member of the CSA Advisory Committee and Executive Board. During her tenure as First Vice President, Dr. Herman has focused on city-subsidized Day Care in NYC working on behalf of CSA’s Day Care Directors and Assistant Day Care Directors. She is a frequent visitor to the NY City Council where she has testified numerous times on the need to preserve community-based, high-quality Day Care for the benefit of working families.
Dr. Herman worked with special education children (District 75) for most of her 30 years in the NYC public schools. She began her career as a special education teacher at the Brooklyn Occupational Center in 1977, and ultimately served as an Assistant Principal at PS 23, D-26, Hillside, Queens before taking office at CSA. From 1997 to 2002, she worked for the District 75 Superintendent’s Office where she handled contract development for specialized equipment and services for special education students citywide.
As part of her work on behalf of children with special needs, she is a member of various professional associations including the American Association on Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities, the National Association of Special School Principals and Assistant Principals and the American Association of University Women. She has served as an Executive Board Member of the Association of Special School Principals and Assistant Principals and is the President of the Phi Delta Kappa Chapter at Fordham University. Dr. Herman is also a Trustee of the CSA Welfare Fund, the CSA Retiree Welfare Fund and the Day Care Council Welfare Fund.
A Brooklynite from birth, Dr. Herman received her doctorate in Education Administration and Supervision from Fordham University, and her master's degree in learning disabilities and bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College.
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