Dr. Kenneth A. Card, Jr. retired from the East Meadow School District in August 2023, where he was the Superintendent of Schools since April 2017. He also served as the Interim Superintendent of Schools in the Elmont School District. Dr. Card previously served as the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in the Huntington School District.
Dr. Card served as the principal of the Woodhull Intermediate School in Huntington. He was an assistant principal at Oldfield Middle School in the Harborfields Central School District for three years and taught in the Uniondale alternative high school program, Western Suffolk BOCES and Uniondale summer school programs, Brentwood’s evening high school program, and at Harborfields High School, where he taught US History and Government, Participation in Government, and Economics from 1998-2003.
Widely known as a thoughtful, innovative, and decisive leader, Dr. Card, in his current role as Superintendent in the East Meadow School District, has implemented a Bond of $47 million dollars to improve facilities and fields in the district. The bond was reopened to add additional funds to provide for turf fields at both district high schools. The district moved to a one-to-one Chromebook environment under Dr. Card’s stewardship, seamlessly, to ensure students could continue their education during a pandemic, which involved school closures and a hybrid/remote schedule for teaching and learning. Dr. Card has worked alongside the Board of Education, the PTA, administrators, teachers, and parents to improve overall communications within the district and supports for students through the expansion of advanced placement courses and the implementation of an integrated co-taught program district wide.
Dr. Card was presented the Power 25 in Education award in 2019; the Kiwanis Making a Difference Award; the 2019 EMS Week Appreciation Award for the Stop the Bleed Program; the Long Island Legend, Making Black History Now award; the Friends Supporting the Anglican Diocese of Belize Inc. Appreciation Award; and the Public Service Award from the members of the Suffolk County Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission.
Dr. Card has also been an adjunct assistant professor at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, and currently serves as an adjunct professor at SUNY Old Westbury.