New York State

Elia meets with local superintendents

Apr 1, 2016

Commissioner MaryEllen Elia visited several classrooms at the Rensselaer City SD campus and Castleton Elementary School and Maple Hill High School in Schodack Central School District. Elia also held a meeting with school district superintendents at the Questar III...

HS students win state championship

Mar 11, 2016

For the second consecutive year, students from the Capital Region BOCES New Visions: Law & Government team has won the state-level We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution competition. Comprised of students from several area high schools in the Questar III...

Teams advance to state finals

Feb 29, 2016

The 2016 Region 4 Odyssey of the Mind Tournament coordinated by Questar III was held Saturday, Feb. 27. Were you seen?…Posted by Questar III on Monday, February 29, 2016 Twenty student teams from schools in Rensselaer, Columbia and Greene counties advanced...

CTE Month: Certified Nurse Aide

Feb 28, 2016

Careers in the medical field have some of the highest projected growth rates and the field is growing faster than most other industries, according to recent reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For high school students interested in becoming nurses, Questar...

Rossman to present on TCI

Feb 26, 2016

Jodi Rossman, a behavior specialist with Questar III, was selected to present at an international conference sponsored by Cornell University this June. Rossman will be presenting two Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) focused lectures at the Fourth International...

Rethinking science education

Feb 26, 2016

In July a group of science teachers will leave their classrooms to go to work in lab settings throughout the Albany area. These individuals are not leaving the profession, but rather entering a professional development program pairing them with the scientists and...