Dear Putnam Valley Community,

The Putnam Valley School District is joining districts across the region and asking for your help on an issue that directly affects fairness for our student-athletes and all public school student-athletes across New York. The current system for section and regional play is completely unfair to public school student-athletes.

After three years of advocacy by the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents, an organization of which I currently serve as the President-Elect, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association continues to fail to act on a proposal for separate postseason competition for public and non-public schools. Non-public programs draw students from broad geographic regions, and in some cases beyond state lines, to assemble their teams, an advantage that fundamentally ...