Award honors those who exemplify superior leadership, service and academics. Senior Aneesh Muppidi has been recognized as one of the country’s most outstanding high school leaders by the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation and has been awarded a $20,000 college scholarship. As a member of the 33rd class of Coca-Cola Scholars, Aneesh exemplifies superior leadership, service and …
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The Guilderland PTA Council conducts an annual “Meet the Candidate Night” to introduce potential board of education members to the community. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the event will not be held live this year. Instead, the PTA Council asked several questions of the candidates running for a seat on the board of education. The questions …
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The Capital Zone NYS Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance honors two students from each school district every year with the High School Leadership Award. This year, Bianca Simeone and Caleb Jacobson are these award recipients. Bianca Simeone As a member of the Varsity Field Hockey Team, Nordic Cross-Country Ski Team, and a …
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Plan maintains programming; focuses on student health, wellness and safety On May 18, 2021, Guilderland residents will vote on the proposed $104,979,570 budget for the 2021-22 school year. The proposal carries a 1.89% spending increase over the current year and a 1.28% increase to the tax levy, which is at the district’s levy limit. A …
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Students’ Chromebooks should work without issue. At this point, connecting BYODs, including cell phones, to the internet in the building will not be possible. We hope to have that function up and running soon. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we have worked through this challenge. It has been a heavy lift for …
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Throughout the day today, our technical team continued to remediate and test our internet system to ensure a successful return to stable, reliable internet connectivity for a seamless transition to onsite learning. As the day progressed, testing began to show some instability with the connection on some devices. Despite our continued work around the clock …
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Our technical team has been working nonstop since Friday in an effort to get all of our systems up and running with the hope that we could resume in person instruction tomorrow. We want to be confident that our systems are stable and reliable so the transition back to in-person learning unfolds seamlessly. Unfortunately, by …
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Specialists working with the GCSD to investigate the technical interruptions that occurred last Thursday have determined that the district was the victim of a cyber attack by a threat actor group which used malware to encrypt certain systems throughout the district. The district is working diligently with specialists to investigate the incident, confirm its impact …
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On Thursday, April 22, 2021, we began experiencing technical difficulties resulting in a disruption to the district’s systems. We are working diligently with specialists to investigate the source of this disruption, confirm its impact on our systems, and to restore full functionality as quickly as possible. We also notified law enforcement of this issue. While …
Since Saturday, the district has learned of six individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19; there were three cases at Guilderland High School, one at Farnsworth Middle School and one each at Guilderland Elementary and Lynnwood Elementary Schools. All of the cases, with the exception of the case at FMS, required contact tracing. The principals …
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