Capital Education -- Spring 2008

We hope you will enjoy the Spring 2008 edition of the City School District of Albany's quarterly newsletter.

You can read each story individually by clicking the links below, or download the full version in .pdf format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader; click here to download a free copy from the Adobe Web site).

From the superintendent -- A year of achievement

College bound -- Options, opportunities abound for 2008 graduates

Student Achievement: Meet William Williams

Alumni achievement: Meet Stefon Harris '91

Leading the Way: Meet Marty Anderson, director of the College Center at Albany High School

Voices -- Favorite summer vacation memories

At a Glance: Pine Hills Elementary School

We choose Albany public schools because ...

• A new era for Albany High football

• New leaders in key cabinet positions

• New principals welcomed

• Yosemite becomes a classroom

• Albany High track team is wheelchair accessible

• Hip-hop poet inspires Harriet Gibbons students

• Good morning, North Albany Academy!                                                                          It was off to college for most members of the Class of 2008,

• Pine Hills Elementary goes green                      including (L-R) Rachel Rudinger (Yale), Anthony Carrasquillo

• Young leaders at Giffen                                     (Hartford), Rachel Gorman (Vassar), Quentin Lott (Tufts) and

• ASH sixth-graders honor ancestors                    Kewsi Burgess (SUNY Plattsburgh).

• 'We Beat the Street'

• Facilities project moving forward

• Friendship blooms in Delaware Community School garden

• Albany High spring athletic success