Breakstone runs unopposed for Bellmore board

One Board of Education seat is up for election in the Bellmore School District, and incumbent Jay Breakstone is running unopposed.

Breakstone, 60, has been on the board for 15 years, and all three of his children have gone through the Bellmore schools. His wife, Rhonda, is a past president of both the Bellmore and Kennedy High School PTAs and a member of Kennedy’s Site-Based Team. Their eldest, Samantha, attended Vanderbilt University and is now studying law at Case-Western Reserve University. Their son Harry will enter his senior year at Vanderbilt in the fall, and their youngest, Avery Rose, will graduate from Kennedy and begin her freshman year at Vanderbilt in the fall.

Breakstone is a career lawyer and is currently appellate counsel at Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, a national law firm, and is involved with litigation issues both in the United States and throughout the world. Aside from working as a lawyer and being a member of the Bellmore Board of Education, Breakstone is the president of the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association.

Breakstone said it was an easy decision to decide to seek re-election for the board. He acknowledged that the current economic situation and decreasing state funding make the board’s work more difficult but just as rewarding. “As any parent knows, no two children are alike, but public education dedicates itself to all of them,” Breakstone said. “That’s what Bellmore Public Schools are all about.”

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