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Schenectady’s football team had just completed its “Fall II” season with a win over Saratoga Springs, and as his players ran off Larry Mulvaney Field, Patriots coach Carm DePoalo gave high school athletic director Steve Boynton a big bear hug to go with a big “thank you.”
Boynton, you see, has been the go-to guy over the last 14 months as Schenectady teams, coaches and athletic staff members have negotiated their way through the COVID-19 era that has included four competition seasons in the current school year.
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Terry Taylor found herself in a tenuous situation at the start of the pandemic: she had recently suffered a personal injury and her job as a tutor at Washington Irving was suspended amid hundreds of school district layoffs.
Taylor, who grew up in Schenectady’s Hamilton Hill neighborhood, started working as a paraprofessional at Schenectady High School in 2004, and after three years at the high school, she went back to school and earned a bachelor’s degree. In 2013, she returned to the district and worked as a tutor at Washington Irving, the district’s alternative school, which offers tutoring to students serving out suspensions. She did that up until the pandemic, when the job was cut.
April 16 deadline to apply for Schenectady City School District summer enrichment program | The Daily Gazette
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The number of applications so far has lagged the number of spots the district hopes to open to students this year: around 220 applications have been submitted for about 1,300 spots, according to figures district spokesperson Karen Corona provided Tuesday.
The program is planned to serve students in pre-kindergarten through seventh grade. Locations will be held at the following locations: Central Park, Mont Pleasant and Oneida middle schools; Howe Elementary, also serving students from Yates and Zoller; Van Corlaer Elementary, also serving students from Hamilton and Pleasant Valley; Paige Elementary, also serving students from Lincoln and Keane; Woodlawn Elementary, also serving students from Martin Luther King Jr.