Re-Elect Sara Beaty

Mt. Pleasant CSD Board of Education

  • Sara Beaty
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My Impact

  • Experienced Leader

    Experienced Leader

    Served on Board of Education since 2020

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    Fiscally Responsible

    Over $50 million in tax neutral improvements to our schools

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    Proven Record of Success

    Expanded programs and opportunities district wide in facilities, education, safety and security, athletics, and arts and music

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    Career Public Servant

    Practicing attorney in government and public service since 2007, for the County of Westchester, City of Yonkers, and NYS Courts

Wildcat Pride

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  • Oranssi project: roof expansion

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Progress You Can See, Responsibility You Can Trust

  • In six years I have served on the Board, we added over $50 million in tax-neutral improvements. Because of responsible financial management, our credit rating rose to AA+.

    Specifically, the District has had improvements in the following critical areas:

    Safety/Security

    • Hired a full-time Safety and Security Administrator and SRO

    • We have security guards in each building

    • There are monitors on each bus

    • Enhanced our security cameras and will be updating the phone system

    • Created a safety committee comprised of parents and staff, both with and without law enforcement backgrounds

    • Through the bond, we will have secured vestibules in each building

    Educational Programs

    • Added science research to our curriculum and updated science research labs

    • Expanded foreign language through the entire district

    • Addition of the strings music program

    • Voted best community in music for four years in a row

    • Added makerspaces to each building

    • Placed focus on the trades by creating the Career Research Academy and providing funding for students to attend BOCES programs

    • Implemented AP Capstone diploma program at the high school

    • Adopted new writing and math programs

    • Added positions for math and reading enrichment  

    • Added UPK

    • Created our “portrait of a learner”

    Special Education

    • Renovated the pupil personnel office to create more private and functional spaces for CSE and other meetings

    • Addition of a full time resource room in Hawthorne and Columbus

    • Reduced the number of students assigned to co-taught classes

    • Created new positions such as a full-time CSE chair and additional reading teachers

    • Adding the new HARBOR program to the Middle and High School for therapeutic support needs  

    Facilities

    • 2 turf fields, along with video board and press box

    • Expanding classroom space at Hawthorne and Columbus

    • Renovating the theater and the library

    • Refinished all gymnasium floors and upgraded scoreboards

    • Adding solar paneling which will result in a savings to the district and the environment

    • Addition of air conditioning to each building

    • Updating the high school cafeteria space

    • Renovated the pupil personnel office to create more private and functional spaces for CSE and other meetings

    • Renovation of art classrooms

    Athletics

    • New turf fields

    • Added girls’ field hockey and flag football

    • Added boys’ freshman basketball

  • Since joining the Board, we have added the following opportunities:

    For Community members:

    • We formed safety, security, and Artificial Intelligence committees.

    • We also built a strong social media presence and send weekly principal newsletters to parents.

    • The District’s PAWPRINT brand is well known as the community now instantly links the paw with our proud wildcats.

    • The Superintendent holds periodic evening meetings at the District Office for parents and community members.

    For Students:

    • We now have two ex-officio student board members.

    • The superintendent established student advisory groups at the middle and high schools.

Who Is Sara Beaty

It is hard to believe – but I was not always a Wildcat.  I am originally from Central New York- having been born and raised in the City of Utica.  It is also hard to believe that Utica is not technically “upstate” New York- Uticans actually think of themselves as Central New Yorkers!   

I come from very humble beginnings, the daughter of two career civil servants.  Since graduating from law school back in 2005, I have dedicated my career to public service and helping others.  I have worked representing the County of Westchester in the Litigation Bureau of the County Attorney’s Office, and as counsel to the Yonkers Public Schools, one of the largest districts in the State.  For the last ten years, I have served as the principal court attorney for a NYS Supreme Court Justice. 

My husband and I moved to Hawthorne over fifteen years ago.  At the time, we wanted to start a family, and we chose this community because of all it has to offer, specifically including the school district and its family-like feeling.  Our two children are now in 5th and 8th grade, each having had the benefits of being enrolled in our school district since they started kindergarten. 

I knew right away that I wanted to give back to the community in which I live.  I began my volunteer service in Mt. Pleasant on the Citizens Budget Advisory Committee (CBAC).  I was a member of the CBAC for three years.  In addition, I joined the Mt. Pleasant Education Foundation, where I served as co-Vice President until I joined the Board of Education in 2020.  However, since being elected to the School Board, I have remained an active participant on the Foundation as their Board Member Liaison.  I have served on the school board since 2020, eventually being nominated to serve as the Vice-President, and since 2025, as the President.  In addition, I have served on the District’s Audit, Budget and Finance Committee since 2021.  This year, I have been advised that I am being nominated by the Westchester Putnam School Boards Association to serve on their board of directors for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2026.  If re-elected to the Mt. Pleasant BOE, I look forward to representing our amazing District in the greater surrounding regions. 

In addition to my volunteerism here in Mt. Pleasant, I am also a member of multiple local and regional bar associations and attorney associations, and I sit on the Board of the Rockland Community College Legal/Paralegal studies advisory board.  You will notice two key themes in my career and volunteerism- public service and education.  I strongly believe that my personal and professional background, my experience as a leader in the community, and all I have learned as a parent of two school-aged children here will enable me to continue to serve the community that I love so much on the School Board.  I cannot believe all we have accomplished as a District in the last 6 years – and I want nothing more than to keep striving for more, in a fiscally responsible and transparent way, all the while maintaining the qualities and characteristics that make Mt. Pleasant unique and special.            

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