Bethlehem Central School District > 2024

Year: 2024

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Birthday Boxes Buddy Project at Slingerlands

It’s a ready-made birthday party with candles, balloons, cake mix, frosting, a whisk, sprinkles and everyone’s favorite, Funfetti. And it’s been packed with love. Recently at Slingerlands Elementary School, students, teachers, and families collaborated to assemble and deliver 40 of these Birthday Boxes to the Merrillac Family Shelter, Albany County’s only residential shelter designed specifically …

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Spotlight on Historically Black Colleges and Universities at BCHS

Bethlehem Central High School students had the opportunity to learn more about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) last week. HBCUs were established in the United States before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide Black students a safe space to learn and build community. From their inception, HBCUs offered Black students access to …

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Kurt Hassenpflug appointed K-12 World Languages and ENL supervisor

At its April 24 meeting, the Bethlehem Central Board of Education appointed Kurt Hassenpflug as the district’s K-12 World Languages and ENL supervisor. The World Languages department’s mission is to develop confident and independent language learners who can communicate proficiently and possess the cultural competency necessary to be successful in an interdependent world. The World …

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Farm to School initiative highlights New York dairy

Throughout April, the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) visited each of BCSD’s five elementary schools to highlight the dairy production process. CCE educators taught students that New York is home to more than 3,600 dairy farms and over 600,000 dairy cows. Each cow yields around 7 gallons of milk daily, producing 15 billion pounds of milk …

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Important update from Superintendent Jody Monroe regarding high school incident

The following is an important update from Superintendent Jody Monroe for BCHS families. It is being sent districtwide. April 23, 2024 Dear BC Parent/Guardian: I am writing to inform you about an investigation by the Bethlehem Police Department into the origin and cause of a fire today in the C wing boys’ bathroom at Bethlehem …

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