Former Director of Goodwin College, Magnet School Choice Institute for Excellence and former Magnet Schools Program Manager, William Magnotta served the Connecticut State Department of Education for over 39 years. For 17 years he was a program manager for Connecticut’s interdistrict magnet schools and interdistrict cooperative grant programs where he developed new magnet schools, monitored state funded interdistrict magnet schools and provided technical assistance to school district administrators.
He is a member of the executive board for the Connecticut Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education and is the Past President of Magnet Schools of America. Mr. Magnotta is active in planning and presenting multicultural activities, workshops and conferences including presentations at MSA’s regional and national magnet school conferences.
Raise the level of performance consistent throughout school districts nationwide and creates a platform from which all magnet schools can flourish. Magnet Schools of America’s national certification process is designed to recognize the hard work of the best magnet schools in the nation and to help them as they grow.