Armando Vilaseca was the former Commissioner of the

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. After leaving

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in 1964, Vilaseca settled in

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, a community with a significant

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community. There he attended

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'', August 31, 2011. Accessed August 2, 2012. "Armando Vilaseca - Vermont education commissioner; I came from Cuba in 1964 and moved to West New York, N.J., an immigrant area that from the 1960s until the 1980s had a huge Cuban immigrant population. My high school, Memorial High School, was probably 70 percent Cuban American..."

Career

Vilaseca served as a classroom

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, before moving on to becoming a school administrator in his role as teaching principal in Reading Elementary School. He continued in this role at Westford Elementary and Middle School, Essex High School for ten years. He subsequently served as

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of the Colchester School District and of the Franklin West Supervisory Union. Vilaseca served as a

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liaison job to the nation, assisting a delegation to represent

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's products. Vilaseca also is a member of the Cuban American Friendship Society

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vilaseca, Armando Living people State cabinet secretaries of Vermont Cuban emigrants to the United States Memorial High School (West New York, New Jersey) alumni People from West New York, New Jersey Educators from New Jersey Year of birth missing (living people)

Career

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