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District administrators and teachers are hoping that two agricultural courses will eventually lead to the development of a complete agricultural-science course sequence.

According to the State Education Department, a majority of BKW students in grade 3-8 who took the spring 2016 English Language Arts test  scored below proficiency levels.

This fall, as many as seven special-needs students will be grouped in Voorheesville secondary classrooms so that they may receive help from an extra teacher while learning with their general-education classmates.

The reorganization meeting also tapped Lillian Sisson-Chrysler, a board member since 2015, to be the board’s new vice president.

Songs and senses are all part of learning at Victory Child Care, a private program based in Albany that will occupy six Guilderland school classrooms come fall.

GUILDERLAND — Annette Landry wasn’t aware the Guilderland schools were in what she called a “huge paradigm shift” when she came to the school board last week.

GUILDERLAND — In September, ninety 3- and 4-year-olds are expected to attend pre-kindergarten in Victory Child Care classes housed in Guilderland schools.

A pilot program centered around “work-based learning” will launch in September at Clayton A. Bouton High School.

Despite being tormented in middle school about her lesbian parents, Riley Gohlke-Schermer in high school learned to accept herself and came out as being “gender fluid.”

As nine state challenge federal directives to provide “a safe environment” for transgender students, local districts have been quietly doing just that.

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