— Photo by Mike McCagg of BOCES

Katuray Koroma, right, graduated on Aug. 26 from the Capital Region BOCES Adult High School Equivalency Program. The 179 August graduates are among 1,000 adult learners served annually by Capital Region BOCES. Koroma said, “To show my daughter that education is important, I had to do it for myself. This is something that has been a burning desire of mine, because of my upbringing and where I came from. This was something I had to put on the back-burner, but was something I really wanted to bring to the forefront now.”