The passion of high school students here describing their tech-savvy creative projects to the school board Tuesday night unfolded into the measured words of school leaders mapping a future for the school that would lead to more college credits.

“To reach 100,000 feet with our balloon is our ultimate goal,” said former high school senior Alexandra Cunningham last March when Project Icarus was just getting underway.

On Dec. 10, President Barack Obama signed a law that replaced the No Child Left Behind Act with the Every Student Succeeds Act. George W.

Michael is a wisp of a boy with intelligent brown eyes. He has cerebral palsy. At Altamont Elementary, he has been taken out of a self-contained classroom and become part of a general class.

_{Jean Guyon, Altamont}

The intiative for "positive peer pressure" came about after a parent expressed worries about student athletes using drugs.

_{John Rosenbach, Professor Emeritus, SUNY Albany}

I would like to make a case for the study of the liberal arts in higher education but the deck is stacked against me.

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