Local Pol Serves Again As PS 115 Principal For A Day

Principals for a Day, Lew Fidler (right) and Margaret Novack (center), pose with P.S. 115 Principal Mitchell Pinsky and students in the school library. Neil S. Friedman

By Neil S. Friedman

For the third consecutive year Brooklyn Democratic City Councilman Lew Fidler served as a Principal for a Day at Public School 115 on East 92 Street. Margaret Novack, Spring
Creek Towers Assistant Director of Communications, was also a short-term principal at the District 18 elementary school in the citywide event held on March 31.

One of dozens of public schools in the councilman’s south Brooklyn district, Fidler has secured hundreds of thousands of dollars for PS 115’s computer lab and library.

There were more than 1,200 participants recruited for last week’s tenth annual Principal for a Day.

The event, organized by PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning), enlists business leaders a variety of occupations, from entertainment to corporate executives to local politicians, to get an eyewitness look at a day in the life of a principal in a New York City public school.

Since 1995 Principal for a Day has attracted more than 7,000 career professionals and helped raise more than $25 million in donations of cash, goods and services to schools in the five boroughs.

Some of this year’s notables included clothing designer Norma Kamali, New York Giants’ linebacker Amani Toomer, wrestler Mick "Mankind" Foley, authors Fran Lebowitz and Anna Quindlen, playwright Wendy Wasserstein, CNBC news anchor Maria Bartiromo, Miss Teen USA Tami Farrell and singer Cheryl James, "Salt" of Salt n’ Pepa.

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