Drills are an important first step in keeping Bethlehem schools, students and staff safe District staff follow strict, detailed safety protocols during emergency drills. With good training and practice, everyone involved will be better able to react appropriately in the event of an actual emergency. Drills allow administrators, staff and students to mitigate, prepare for and …
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Students, staff wear blue on Oct. 1 to kick off the month with kindness in all of our schools.
It is the second time Durray Mahmood has earned the prestigious award from the University of Chicago.
The Bethlehem Central School District is mourning a member of its staff. Justin T. Brown, 32, an employee of the district’s Technology Department, passed away suddenly at home over the weekend, according to his family. Brown, who worked for Bethlehem for 10 years, was an IT Manager and Senior Network & Systems Engineer. In addition to …
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Here they are: our incoming eighth graders and the BCHS Class of 2023. We expect great things from this group!
The Albany Business Review has named Bethlehem the number one area school district for the second year in a row.
Teachers touch the lives of so many students and those young people reach out and touch others. One can never truly know the boundaries of their reach, the lives impacted and the differences made. As a teacher, colleague, mentor and valued friend, Chris Porter, fifth-grade teacher, left her mark on all of us. We hold …
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Public budget discussions got underway in Bethlehem at the Feb. 8 Board of Education meeting as Superintendent Jody Monroe presented her 2018 State of the Schools address and Chief Business and Financial Officer Judith Kehoe outlined preliminary figures for the 2018-19 school district budget. The presentations mark the formal beginning of public budget deliberations that …
Between December 6, 2017 and January 5, 2018, more than 2,000 stakeholders in the Bethlehem Central School District completed a survey aimed at guiding the work of the district’s Strategic Planning Committee. Highlights of the responses collected can be found below. 226 BCSD staff members completed the survey. 1,401 students in grades 6-12 completed the …
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