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Hello! Happy New Year!

To CSD community, students, staff, families, parents, community members, all of whom cherish the school:

I am very pleased to announce the new superintendent of California School for the Deaf. This position has been vacant since July 2023, and now this person will start on February 1. I would like to announce Ms. Amy Novotny as our 13th superintendent of the California School for the Deaf. She is the first Deaf female superintendent in your school's rich 164-year history. Congratulations, Amy! Again, she will start on February 1.

Ms. Novotny brings a wealth of experience as a school administrator. In the 9 years prior to moving to Fremont, she was the executive director at a charter school, the Rocky Mountain Deaf School, in Denver, Colorado. Here at CSD, she has served as a high school principal and a Curriculum/Outreach supervisor during the past 18 months. Amy has been a classroom educator for many years, so she brings a lot of experience. I am very excited to work with her in her new capacity starting soon.

The California Department of Education and I are very excited to begin working with her, and we look forward to her ongoing commitment to the school as your new superintendent.

Once again, I want to show my gratitude and appreciation to the interview committee, comprised of a variety of stakeholders, who invested their time interviewing all of the outstanding candidates. They all came to a full agreement that Amy is a great selection for CSD. Congratulations, again!

Nancy Hlibok Amann, Ph.D.
Interim Superintendent, CSD
Division Director, State Special Schools and Services at CDE