Back to School

Westmere Elementary School starts on Monday with students wearing their masks for their first in-person day of classes.

Christian Brothers Academy celebrates the start of the school year and honors the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on Friday afternoon .

On Aug. 8, CM Fox Real Estate donated $2,500 to the Backpacks For Success program where each student got a $100 gift card along with a 15-percent-off coupon from Kohl’s to shop after the kids had a pizza party at the Guilderland YMCA.

A new club at Voorheesville Elementary School has joined the media landscape. Blackbirds on the Wing, a podcast club, recently posted its first episode titled, “The Nature of Fads.”

Administrators, teachers, and students continue to wrestle with making sure that students’ personal electronic devices have a constructive role to play in school.

Guilderland’s teaching staff, like those of Voorheesville and Berne-Knox-Westerlo, remains overwhelmingly white, a pattern seen at schools across the country.

At the University at Albany, an increase in applicants may be due in part to an opportunity to attend tuition-free.

Parents of local students have a new shopping tool since schools’ supply lists are now posted on TeacherLists.com.  

Children will follow their interests to make discoveries at Annie Cosgrove’s new preschool in Altamont.

Its founders call their approach “project-based interdisciplinary learning.”

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