Cooperative Virtual Learning Academy Enrolling For 2022-23 School Year
Our Cooperative Virtual Learning Academy, now in its second school year, continues to evolve as a meaningful option for K-12 learners.
Congratulations to Our 2022 Adult Education Grads
More than 50 adults from the Capital Region and beyond were celebrated on Aug. 24 for their many accomplishments in our High School Equivalency (HSE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) programs. For some of the graduates, the event recognized achievement of a lifelong goal. For others, it marked an accomplishment that will allow …
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Grant Funding Provides Area Students with Life and School Essentials
The Wright Family Foundation has awarded a $10,000 grant to the Mohonasen Central School District to support its MohonCARES (Connecting Area Resources to Empower Students) programming. This grant was secured with support from the Grant Writing team of our Engagement and Development Services division. MohonCARES aims to achieve equity among students by providing such needed …
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New Career & Technical Education Center, New Era Of Workforce Development
During an Aug. 16 ribbon cutting event, hundreds of education, business and political leaders celebrated the impact our new Career & Technical Education Center – Albany campus, located at 925 Watervliet Shaker Road, will have on both the students it educates and the industries it prepares students to enter. “BOCES has taken it to another …
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Students, Staff and Friends Remember Maywood School
Maywood School—Soon Maywood Academy—To Open In A New Location This September More than a hundred students, teachers and staff, principals, administrators and friends who have been a part of our Maywood School community over the years gathered recently to say good-bye to the school building that many describe as more like home. This summer, after …
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Adult Education Programs Help “Ignite” Future Careers
New Adult Ed Classes Set To Begin Sept. 12 Interested in a cool career that will heat up your future? How about a career that is all the “buzz” or one that will connect you to double-digit job growth? Capital Region BOCES Career & Technical Education Center has an adult education course for you! Several …
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Cosmetology Grad Aims To Be A Cut Above At Nursing
Madison Sluers is so committed to becoming a cosmetologist she spent dozens of hours practicing her skills and earning state-required hours in our classrooms after she graduated from our program and Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School. So it may surprise you to learn that her aspirations have her working with patients, not customers. Sluers, a Cosmetology program …
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Voters Approve Sale Of Two BOCES Buildings
On Aug. 9, 2022, voters residing within Capital Region BOCES’ component districts and the City School District of Albany will have the opportunity to cast their vote on the sale of two buildings.
Business Partner Gives Student Learning A Charge
Current Career & Technical Education students and recent graduates are building their professional tech skills and earning real-world workplace experience through internships with local renewable energy firm and BOCES business and education partner Livingston Energy Group. Gavin Christman, Nick Dunham, William Kruk and Michael Martin, all 2022 graduates of our Game Design and Implementation program, …
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Simulators Expand Learning For Construction Students
This summer, our Career & Technical Education Center in Schoharie received four new heavy equipment operator simulators that will be used to train students on how to operate backhoes, bulldozers, graders, excavators and dump trucks. Training on the simulators for campus faculty and staff was led by experts from CM Labs Simulations. Funded through a …
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