An update to the school calendar — Friday, May 23 is now a day off from classes for all students and staff. The district is using an unused snow day built into the calendar to provide everyone a well-deserved, four-day weekend attached to Memorial Day. Residents of Menands who attend out-of-district schools will still have …
There are two vacant Board of Education Seats that will be voted upon at the Annual Budget vote and Election on May 20, 2025. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected to the four (4) year term commencing July 1, 2025, and expiring on June 30, 2029. The candidate with the …
There will be a Special Board of Education Meeting on Monday, March 24th, at 6:30 p.m. This meeting will include a Budget Workshop. All Board of Education meetings and budget workshops are live-streamed on YouTube. Agendas are posted in BoardDocs. See the BOE page of our website for more information.
Menands voters will consider in May whether ownership of the Menands Public Library should be transferred from the school to the library Board of Trustees. The Menands Board of Education approved on March 10 putting the transfer before voters as a proposition on May 20 – the district’s annual budget vote date. The vote will …
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Parents of youth under the age of four-years-old are encouraged to register their children for the school’s full-day PreK program. Children who will turn four-years-old by Dec. 1 are eligible to attend the program, which is made possible through state funding. The program provides students with an opportunity to engage in play-based learning while exploring, …
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All students who require bussing for high schools, charter schools, or private schools need to submit a transportation request before April 1, 2025. The link below will take you to a Google form to request transportation. If you have any questions please email Trish O’Connell at toconnell@menands.org Transportation Request 2025-2026
Storm clouds were formed in a Menands third grade classroom on Monday, but the only thunder that could be heard was the rumbles of applause and shouts of awe as students reacted to an experiment conducted by WNYT news channel 13 meteorologist Reid Kisselback. Students in Stephanie Stanton’s and Jennifer Houbre’s classes started their school …
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The link to the budget workshop livestream is here A link to the slideshow is here
You could say students in Samantha Hall’s second grade classroom are not monkeying around when it comes to a fellow classmate who is out of school due to illness. The students in the Menands Union Free School have adopted Gage Jr., a stuffed monkey, to keep the seat warm for their classmate, who has been …
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A regionalization initiative to increase student services while saving taxpayers is exceeding expectations this school year, school district officials say. The Riverside Special Education Collaborative launched in September to provide the “least restrictive educational environment” for students in the Menands, Cohoes, Green Island and Watervliet schools. Through the collaborative, students remain enrolled in their respective …
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