Anthony J. Alvarado

Who is Anthony J. Alvarado?

Anthony John Alvarado is an American educator and administrator who served from 1983 to 1984 as New York City School Chancellor, overseeing the operation of the largest public school district in the United States as the school system's first Hispanic Chancellor. He was forced to step down in the wake of charges of professional misconduct and financial irregularities.

Alvarado was born on June 10, 1942, in the South Bronx, where he attended St. Anselm's Catholic School and Fordham Preparatory School. He earned a bachelor's and master's degree in English from Fordham University, and took additional education classwork at Hunter College. He started in the New York City Public Schools in a school in the Bronx and spent a year teaching at James Monroe High School. After a series of administrative positions and promotions at Board of Education headquarters on Livingston Street and in District 9, he was named in 1973 as superintendent of District 4, which covered the largely African American and Hispanic community of East Harlem in Manhattan.